What is Impatiens Capensis?
Impatiens capensis is an annual plant similar to shrubs known for its bright orange and yellow bell -shaped flowers. This plant comes from North America and can also be found in many European countries. Many gardeners celebrate Impatiens Capensis for their colorful flowers, which are a favorite hummingbird, bees and butterflies. This species is also known in some regions such as Jewelweed or Touch-Me-notm.
Sap Impatiens Capensis provides several well -documented health benefits. It offers the properties of the anti-function for the skin, allowing it to serve as an effective cure for poisonous ivy, sting and other irritation. This plant also offers properties against mistakes and acts as a natural medicine on the foot of the athlete and other fungal infections. However, not all parts of the Impatiens Capensis race are so useful. The berries of this plant are highly toxic and can cause serious illness or even death in young children.
Clean like his richly colored flowers. These leaves are very long and wide, with serrated edges and are covered with fine hair that gives a holiday powder or silver look. This silver look helped give this kind of its common name, Jewelweed. The name Jewelweed can also be used to indicate plants of clearly colored flowers.
Impatiens capensis has a strong round stem that is red-green is a color and filled with liquid. In general, it grows between 2 and 5 feet (30.5 to 152 cm) tall and has a large seed pods that have torn open to distract seeds when touching. This unique characteristic helped give the plant the nickname "Touch-Me-not".
Capensis impatiate flowers grow in clusters of one, two or three flowers. They have a conical or bell shape and each only three large petals. Clear orange color of flowers can be interrupted by red or brown spots, stripesor by lines. Sometimes these red and brown spots are grouped together to put the flower primarily red or brown color, which powered orange basic tones. Impatiens capensis flowers for several months throughout the summer and autumn.
Gardeners who are interested in growing capensis impatiens find that they are doing well in many types of soil, including clay, clay and sand varieties. This plant requires very wet soil and usually occurs around wetlands and marshy areas. It grows best when it is exposed to frequent shadow but can tolerate mild solar exposures.