Chlorophytum / chlorophytum

It belongs to the lily family. Homeland - South America.

General description: Chlorophytum - it is one of the popular houseplants. Long and thin, beautiful curved leaves of green or with white stripes on the outskirts form a wide outlet. In the spring and summer blooms with small white-colored flowers on long stalks. Later flowering indoors inflorescence is formed subsidiary outlet with aerial roots. The most common Chlorophytum comosus (Chlorophytum crested).

Chlorophytum - quite undemanding plant. He cleans the atmosphere of the place.

Recommendations for the care of a plant Chlorophytum:

Illumination: Needs bright but diffused light.

Irrigation mode: Abundant in the growth period of winter is moderate, the soil should always be moist prkticheski.

Humidity: Requires regular spraying and washing in the shower. Protect against drafts and eliminate from the central heating.

Temperature: Moderate, in winter not lower than 18 ° C.

Soil: Recommended soil mishmash 2 elements of the turf, 1 share of humus, ground sheet 1 share and 1 share of sand.

In the period of growth needs a dressing 1 every 2 weeks of complex fertilizer for decorative-deciduous plants.

Breeding: Subsidiaries rosettes and fragmentation for the transplant.

Transplanting: Transplant young plants each year, mature, older than three years transplanted through a couple years, but every year is replaced by a higher layer of the earth.

Pests: spider mites is affected (in dry atmosphere, leaves and stems braided webs), scale insects (on leaves and stems appear brown patches, leaving a sticky discharge).

The plant allowed to help finish a soap solution, and washing the warm spray aktellik (1-2 ml per liter of water).

Chlorophytum - chlorophytum