Hamedorea flower is a popular houseplant, often used by housewives to add a special style to the interior. The plant resembles a palm tree and looks harmonious both in a large and bright living room, and in the corridors and offices of the office center. The tropical guest is unpretentious, but requires some attention to the conditions of detention.
Description of the popular varieties of palm tree chamedorea
Chamedorea palm has several types, each of which is interesting and unique in its own way.
Plants differ in leaf shape, care features and some other parameters.
Hamedorea Bridble
This type of plant is one of the most popular among other palm trees. Its leaves are long-leaved; each of them has an average of 14 pairs of narrow leaves. Formed briddle chamedorea from numerous stems, their appearance resembles bamboo. Each sheet is directed vertically upward from the trunk with a slight bend. Palm tree blooms with dark yellow balls resembling a branch of mimosa.
Hamedorea Bridble during flowering
Hamedorea Ernest-Augustus
Externally, Ernest-August is significantly different from other representatives of his family with broad leaves. They may seem to resemble large hearts. Leaves are located in the upper part of the trunk, forming a rosette of 6-8 pieces. The end of each leaf has a bifurcation, which makes it look like a heart. On the trunk, you can see the roots that did not seem to fit in the pot - these are aerial roots with which you can propagate the plant.
Ernest-Augustus and its flowering
Hamedorea Plain
This chamedorrhea almost does not require care. Outwardly, it can be confused with the Elegance variety. However, unlike her, this species has a thinner stem, and the bush is more often populated by them. Externally, the leaves can be compared with the wet feathers of a large bird. The palm tree got its name according to one of the legends, because it blooms once in its life. There is a claim that the first flowering can be seen on a 70-year-old plant. The flowers themselves have the same kind of blooming mimosa.
Hamedorea metal
The representative of this variety is very similar to the Ernest-August hamedorea - it has the same dense and large leaves with two tips. But the color of the green part is different, why the plant got its name - the shade of the leaves has a pronounced metallic sheen. This variety is found in large private collections or botanical gardens, as well as at exhibitions.
Metallic acquired its name due to the color of the leaves
Chamedorea elegans (chamaedorea elegans)
You can grow up to 2 meters in height the Chamedorea elegans, with proper care at home and a specially selected pot depth. It has a large number of stems, each of which contains 6-7 long leaves resembling feathers. The plant blooms regularly, regardless of the season and is the most common among its other relatives.
Features of home care
All varieties share some common care rules that chamedorea needs - home care should provide tropical humidity and moderate air temperature. She also does not like direct sunlight and drafts.
Pot selection
The pot must immediately be taken in rather large sizes, so that as the growth does not have to transplant the plant. Choose the right deep pot, not a wide one, made of natural materials. Ceramic, clay or wooden are perfect. Be sure to lay drainage at the bottom before landing.
Important! It is worth observing the rules for choosing a container once, after which you can forget about the transplant for many years, since chamedorea does not grow rapidly - only a couple of sheets are added during the year. This feature applies to many other palm trees.
Soil composition
In specialized stores, it is easy to find soil created specifically for palm trees. If this did not happen, you can prepare the land yourself, mixing in equal proportions:
- peat;
- turf land;
- humus.
Add sand to the resulting soil, the proportion of which should not exceed a seventh of the total volume of the pot. The resulting mixture is very light and easily passes air, which ensures that the root system is healthy.
Soil fertilizer
Fertilizing without harm to the plant can only be specially marked - "for palm trees". In the autumn-winter period, it is recommended to reduce the dose and number of top dressings to 1 time per month and a half. From April to October, it is useful to fertilize with fertilizers twice a month. The plant with pleasure accepts an alternative type of top dressing - through the leaves.
Attention! When spraying foliage with a solution, it is necessary to reduce the concentration of the substance recommended for watering by half. It must be borne in mind that the plant just bought does not need to be fed for the first 4 months.
Transplant after purchase
The palm just brought home needs to be put where direct sunlight does not reach the leaves, and no more manipulations are required for it for 2 weeks, except regular watering. After the time allotted for adaptation, you can transplant a tropical palm into a prepared pot. It is important to remember that arranging a plant in a new place is mandatory with an earthen lump. Any damage to the roots can lead to death, so they can not be cleaned from the ground under any circumstances.
Preserving an earthen coma during transplantation
Watering and humidity
It is very useful to plant any plant from the Hamedorea family for two reasons: it purifies the air and requires humidity in the room. Both of these options are good for human health. If he had not previously thought about the humidity in the room for himself, then after acquiring elegant Hamedorea or any other, he will have to do it. The humidity level should not fall below 55%. In order to monitor the air condition in the room, you can buy a hygrometer - on devices with a scale, values that are comfortable for a person are painted in green, they are also suitable for a plant. If there is no humidifier, you will have to spray the leaves daily, except in the winter months.
Moisturize the leaves by spraying.
With watering you need to be careful: until the topsoil is dry, the plant is not touched. On average, watering in the warm season is carried out 2 times a week. In winter, you can water 1 time in 5 days. The water must necessarily be soft, without any admixture of salts, not icy and not warm. The optimum water temperature for irrigation is + 25˚С (permissible maximum is +30).
Content temperature
It’s easy to take care of the palm tree, which is provided with proper watering and appropriate humidity. It is very important to observe the temperature regime in the room where the tropical guest lives. The thermometer column should not rise above + 26 ° C and fall below + 13 ° C.
Important! Knowing the boundaries of temperature changes, it is not necessary to strive for them. It is better to choose a middle ground and try to stably maintain a temperature of 20-22 degrees. These indicators are comfortable for a person who will live in a room with a palm tree.
Why chamedorea dries, leaves turn yellow
Hamedorea leaves may dry out due to improper care. With insufficient watering or dry air in the room, the tips of the foliage may turn yellow and fall. To avoid this, it is important to monitor the humidity in the room. If there is no humidifier in the house, you can do it by daily spraying from the spray bottle with room temperature water. A container of water located near the flower can bring benefits in resolving the issue of hydration. In spring and autumn, when the heating season is not yet open, the air condition in the vast majority of apartments is normal. But it is necessary to monitor it when heating radiators that dry the air are turned on.
What can prevent a palm from growing
With improper care, the risk of infection of the plant with a spider mite is high. The result of his activity immediately manifests itself in the form of yellow spots on the leaves. The disease occurs due to swampy soil. If the plant was originally planted in improperly selected soil, which after irrigation does not breathe and acidifies, the reproduction of the pest will not take long. In such conditions, another source of the disease, the scabies, may also appear. When it appears, the leaves acquire dark plaques.
Souring of mail is dangerous by the manifestation of pink rot, in which the roots die, followed by the whole plant. If pink spots began to appear on the trunk of the palm, this is an occasion to urgently change the soil. After falling out of the pot, the spoiled roots are cut off, the remaining lump of earth with its roots entangled is treated with a fungicide.
What does a scabbard look like on palm leaves
When gray oval spots appear on the leaves, you have to fight against a fungal disease caused by excessive watering. At the first sign of infection, damaged leaves need to be cut off, healthy leaves should be treated with a fungicide solution.
When a plant is densely overgrown, has a large number of leaves, between which air circulates poorly, it is likely to soon find aphids among greenery. A small insect of juicy green color is perfectly masked in the thickets of palm trees and causes significant harm to its health. In order for the aphid to not appear, it is necessary to divide the thick bush into several small ones in time.
Propagation Features
Chamedorea elegans can propagate by seed, but only if two heterosexual representatives of this variety grow nearby. This is necessary for pollination, since chamedorea is a dioecious representative of the tropical flora.
You can get a new plant by dividing the bush. This method is resorted to when the adult palm tree is too densely populated with stems. With this type of reproduction, the entire plant is carefully dumped out of the pot, after which the root lump is divided into two or three.
Seed growing
Step-by-step instructions for obtaining seed sprouts:
- during flowering, the plant is pollinated;
- ripened seeds are harvested;
- start sprouting.
Sprouted seedling
To do this, put the seed to a depth of not more than 1 cm in a light moist soil, the temperature of which does not drop below 20 degrees. At the same time, the air temperature should have a stable value in the range from + 25 ° C to + 27 ° C. Before the first sprouts appear, a month may pass, sometimes a half. Since chamedorea does not grow rapidly, but very slowly, the first containers for sprouted seedlings are selected in small volumes, it is possible to plant two or even three sprouts in one pot. Growing, the plant will look magnificent even at a very young age, thanks to the close proximity of the embryos.
Having any kind of Hamedorea in the living room is not only safe, but also very useful. The flower is not poisonous; if the leaf is accidentally broken, no dangerous or toxic substances will get on the skin. In the process of life, an exotic palm tree cleans the air of harmful impurities, enriching it with oxygen. In addition, its content is useful for allergy sufferers, since when growing it is necessary to monitor the level of humidity in the room. At high humidity, dust and other allergens settle on horizontal surfaces and do not enter the human respiratory tract. Any kind of Hamedorea is not only a highlight in the interior, but also a useful roommate in the room.
