What is an umbrella plant?
Umbrella plant is a flowering evergreen shrub, which is often maintained as a room, also known as the dwarf umbrella or according to its scientific name Scheffler Arboricola. The plant can grow up to 30 feet (nine meters), but the internal samples are usually smaller and reach heights of 10 to 20 feet (three to six meters). Its leaves are often green and grow in groups of small leaflets that resemble "umbrellas with a finger", hence the common name of the plant. Yellow or cream flowers begin to bloom in the spring and summer months in branched clusters. The umbrella plant is a popular house plant because it is usually easily accessible in kindergartens and garden centers and also tends to be customizable and easy to grow. For this reason, the plant tends to prefer warm temperatures and low frost when grown outside. Most of the umbrella plants, which are sold as houseplants, begin to live outside in full sun conditions, leading to the growth of dense fresh leaves. Plants can begrown from seeds, from cutting or layering air. Air layering is a process of cultivation that deliberately causes an adult plant injury, wrapped wound in moss and plastic film, and then remove the resulting new plant and its root system from the parent plant by cutting.
Many umbrella varieties are available for sale from kindergarten and garden centers. The plant is most often sold as a shrub or shrub, but is also available in the form of a tree, often as a tree of inner bonsai. It can also be available as a tree with harmonized roots, unlike another common house tree, the Ficus tree. There are also various cultivars that have different colored leaves, such as the "Golden Capella" variety, which has cooled green and yellow leaves or the "Trinette" variety, which leaves green and cream -white. An umbrella plant with solid leaves often requires more sunlight because the leavesThey contain less chlorophyll than the leaves of all green.
As a house plant, the umbrella plant requires little care and will live easily and grow for 20 years. However, it tends to attract spider mites, a small insect that lives on the underside of its leaves and feeds on the plant, so the leaves must often be checked to make signs of insects. The plant also prefers damp soil, but does not tolerate wet or sitting in the pool of standing water. If the plant is left in the water or if the soil is too wet, the leaves may begin blackened or brown and fall out of the plant. The health of the plant can be maintained by having a sufficient drainage system.