Also known as honeysuckle. It is an evergreen or semi-evergreen twining vine of Lonicera. Caprifoliaceae, native to China, Korea and Japan.

Honeysuckle is an ideal outdoor potted flower with winding vines, lush foliage, blooming in spring and summer and rich fragrance.

Biological habit

Honeysuckle likes warm, slightly humid and sunny environment, although it is also resistant to shade, but in hidden environment, it is easy to cause plants to grow in vain, with small branches and leaves, and it is not easy to bloom, which affects the beautiful shape of plants. The optimum growth temperature is 65438 02℃ ~ 26℃. If the temperature is too low, the leaves will be red and grow slowly. This is because carbohydrate metabolism is blocked, thus synthesizing more anthocyanins. Honeysuckle is not strict with soil, it can adapt to both acidic and alkaline soils, and it is drought-resistant and moisture-resistant, but it can't accumulate water in the basin.

breeding method

Sowing, cutting, stacking soil and layering, and dividing plants for propagation. Generally, cutting and soil piling are the main methods, and cutting with branches is easy to survive. When the temperature is right, it can be cut all year round. Take a stout vine with a length of 10 ~ 15 cm and insert it into the matrix of vermiculite: perlite: yellow sand =1:1. The cutting depth is 65438+ 0/2 of the cutting length. Stacking and layering: before layering, cut off the cortex at the base of the branch, and then pile the culture soil for 20 ~ 30 cm, and keep the culture soil moist all the time. Planted after rooting, cut off from the mother plant and cultured separately.

Seed propagation

When the seeds are ripe in autumn, collect the ripe fruits, knead them in clear water, remove the peels and impurities, take out the full seeds that have sunk to the bottom of the water, and dry them for preservation. Autumn can be harvested or planted. If the seeds are sown in the following spring, the sand storage method can be used to treat the seeds for overwintering, and then the seeds can be planted after being frozen in the spring. Trenching on the seedbed, evenly spreading seeds into the trench, covering with 3 cm thick soil, compacting, and emerging in about 10 days. Field management should be strengthened at seedling stage, and seedlings can be sown in production fields in autumn or spring of the following year. The sowing amount per mu is about 1- 1.5 kg.

Cultivation management

1. Cultivation medium: Although honeysuckle does not require high soil, if 60-70% peat, 20-30% vermiculite and 10% perlite are used as cultivation soil, the plant growth will be better.

2. Water and fertilizer management: 3 months before flowering, apply phosphorus and potassium-based fertilizer 1 ~ 2 times. After the flowers wither in late May, we should still apply 1 ~ 2 times of thin fertilizer, properly remove the new branches and promote the germination of the second batch of flower buds. At the same time, the soil should be kept moist and not too dry, otherwise the basal leaves will wither and fall off easily, which will affect flowering. In hot season, avoid direct glare to avoid burning young leaves.

3. Pruning: Prune once in its dormant period, cut off slender branches, weak branches and cross branches, and shorten the branches of the current year to promote new branches and flowers in the coming year.

4. Pest control: There are relatively few pests and diseases in honeysuckle, and aphids occasionally invade, which will damage new leaves and shoots, turn the leaves over and affect growth. Use 65,438+0,000 times of "aphids and ticks" or other pesticides to control it.

Honeysuckle not only has high ornamental value, but also has high economic value. It is often used as honey source and medicinal plant cultivation. Its flowers, stems and leaves are very resistant to a variety of germs and influenza viruses.

Dwarfing measures of potted honeysuckle

Honeysuckle is a perennial semi-evergreen vine of Caprifoliaceae, which blooms from May to August with unique fragrance and can be used to make honeysuckle tea.

Honeysuckle can be used as hedges, fences, balconies, flower galleries, flower stands and other three-dimensional greening in parks, and can also be used as ground cover materials for soil and water conservation, wind prevention and sand fixation. Honeysuckle. Can be planted in the ground, can also be used as a potted plant to watch. The flower stems of gold and silver are slender, and the tree shape is generally difficult to control, which is prone to the phenomenon of long nodes and few flowers. Therefore, dwarfing measures must be taken to make gorgeous and spectacular honeysuckle bonsai.

1. control water and fertilizer honeysuckle potted plants must limit vine growth, control tree shape and increase flower quantity. Avoid rain in spring, reduce watering, prevent overgrowth, make stems and vines mature, shorten internodes, and reduce plant deformation. Apply less or no nitrogen fertilizer before flower bud formation, and increase phosphorus and potassium fertilizer to promote flower bud formation and increase flower quantity. Proper application of nitrogen fertilizer in the stopping growth period and bud stage of new shoots will make bloom big and beautiful.

2. Change pots at the right time. Generally, potted flowers are changed into one pot every two years, and honeysuckle bonsai is changed into one pot every three or four years. Because of the few times of changing pots, the absorption function of roots is weakened, which promotes plant senescence, inhibits excessive growth, eases the tree potential, makes the stems and vines strong, makes the internodes dense, dwarfs the plant shape and makes flowers flourish.

3. Be a tender branch of Lonicera japonica Thunb. To control the germination of about 5 cm, 700- 1000 ppm paclobutrazol, 2000-4000 ppm MB9 or 1000-2000ppm chlormequat should be sprayed or sprayed continuously for several times to prevent the stem from growing vigorously and dwarf the tree.

4. Dwarf plastic pruning: Dwarf plastic pruning is carried out from the upper pot planting and cultivated into thick stems and short branches. During the growth period, vigorous buds should be removed, strong branches should be cored early, long branches should be cut off and short branches should be kept when pruning. Through shaping and pruning, the vine winding type is transformed into a short shrub pile landscape with short branches and short stems, uniform and dense branches and obvious layers.

5. Long-term treatment of honeysuckle is a plant that likes light and long-term sunshine. If the environment is poorly ventilated and humid, the stems and vines will grow white, the branches will be thin, the leaves will easily turn yellow and fall off, and there will be few flowers. Therefore, honeysuckle bonsai should be placed in a sunny place, preferably in direct sunlight all day, so as to make the branches stout and short, the leaves luxuriant and the flowers numerous, and prolong the flowering period.

The medicinal part of honeysuckle is mainly flowers, so it is necessary to look at the flowers and weather when harvesting, so as to pick it in time. When the flowers are turquoise at the base, milky white at the top, in bud, bright in color and full of light, it is the best symbol of flower picking. Pick it when the dew is still wet on a sunny day, and don't press it with your hands. In order to ensure the medicinal quality and performance of flowers, the flowers picked on the same day should be dried in time, and the flowers should be evenly spread on the drying mat on sunny days to let the sun dry naturally. In rainy days, heat and dry. A square drying room is built indoors, with a heating device at the bottom, and layered drying racks are set in the room, with a spacing of 25 cm between each floor. Spread the flowers evenly on the drying tool, the thickness of the spread flowers is not more than 1 cm, and move them into the shelf. The initial drying temperature was 30-35℃, and it was raised to 405- 10 hour after 2 hours, and kept at 45-50℃. After about 10 hour, most of the water in the flowers was discharged, and the drying temperature rose to 55℃. When dried flowers squeak when pinched, they break when caught, with pure color and rich fragrance. The drying process should be carried out continuously, once dried, and do not stop drying or flip at will. Drying method is widely used because it has many advantages and can ensure the medicinal value of flowers. You can also gently dry it before drying it until it is dry.

Pharmaceutical companies or manufacturers of traditional Chinese medicine health care products will buy them. Baidu has information about buying honeysuckle, you can refer to it:)

Honeysuckle is a treasure everywhere, and the economic return of introducing and planting honeysuckle is very rich. Honeysuckle is used more and more widely, and has gradually developed from a single Chinese herbal medicine to tea, drinks, food and daily chemical products. The original flower of honeysuckle is used instead of tea, which is fragrant and refreshing after drinking. Taking honeysuckle tea in summer and autumn can not only prevent heatstroke, reduce fat and beauty beauty, but also clear away heat and toxic materials and prevent diseases. It is an excellent product for modern people to preserve health and prevent diseases. In recent years, honeysuckle tea, honeysuckle dew, honeysuckle crystal, traditional Chinese medicine toothpaste containing honeysuckle, Gaolujie toothpaste, cigarettes containing honeysuckle and beer have also been developed and produced one after another. Honeysuckle new products are popular not only in the domestic market, but also in foreign markets. Chinese in Southeast Asian countries regard honeysuckle as a necessity for every family. Many Asians also regard honeysuckle in China as a symbol of wealth and auspiciousness, and regard honeysuckle as a superior gift for relatives and friends. Honeysuckle is exported to the United States, Australia, Europe, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Hongkong, Australia, Taiwan Province and other dozens of countries and regions. Since the 1980s, honeysuckle has been the fist product of China's export to earn foreign exchange.

The benefits are considerable.