What is adenia?

Adenia is a member of the family of the passion of the passing of passifloraceae. It is originally from Africa, Tanzania, Somalia and Madagascar. This group of flowering plants acquires its name from the Passiflora Flower family. It includes passiflora edulis, which carries edible fruit of the passion. This group also includes common climbing garden plants such as Mapop and Running Pop, which are known for their stunning, striking flowers. The variety of Adenia plants ranges from succulent desert plants to tropical trees. Several varieties also have highly toxic sap.

While this family of plants is known for the beautiful family of Musinky, it also consists of many caudiciform or succulent varieties. These include several special, strange looking plants with decorative stems. This type grows in underground rainforests and spreads through underground tubers. Some of these tubers grow to form a above -ground Caudex -Stone and the root base Plant - with very strong trunks.

one of the most unusualThe types are adenia pechuelli, which grows in Namibia. It has a Caudex that can grow to more than the yard (91.44 cm) wide. Thanks to its wide, squatty looking branch it resembles appearance. To make them look still alien, they often grow up from slots.

While many Adenia plants are poisonous, one of them is known for their toxicity. Adenia Digitata has the reputation that it is the worst plant in the world, and in fact it contains a compound of cyanide. Great attention should be used when pruning or handling some of these plants.

All varieties of adenia are dioecous, which means that individual plants are male or women. It is necessary to have one of them for the production of seeds. For this reason, it is easier to spread them with cuts, although they often do not develop a strong baciform base using this method. However, promotion by seeds usually produces a thickened base.

adenia grows in warm climate andIt does not survive temperatures below 45 degrees (13 Celsius). The types of passionate are produced by good container plants, which are well leading to bright light and sandy, well -drained soil. Larger succulent types are too big to try to keep inside.

Many plants available in garden centers and kindergartens are domesticated clones. Clones are usually designed to survive a larger range of cultivation conditions than their original counterparts. They can usually withstand more cold and moisture and cannot be killed as easily as plants transplanted from their natural environment.