Azorella

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Azorella (lat. Azorella) - a spectacular decorative-leaved plant from the Umbrella family.

Description

Azorella is a rather low pillow-like perennial, endowed with amazingly beautiful and strongly split wintering leaves. But the small flowers of this plant cannot boast of special expressiveness.

Despite the fact that Azorella is characterized by a very small height, it can grow quite strongly in width, forming rather dense "cushions" and covering colossal areas. In addition, this plant is endowed with the ability to copy the reliefs of any surface! And if on the way Azorella encounters any obstacles (pebbles, driftwood, etc.), she, like water streams, will "flow around" them literally from all sides!

The small leaves of azorella are painted in pleasant rich green tones, and their shiny and rather tough leaf blades split into several sharpened and rather narrow lobes. All leaves fit tightly to each other, forming tight rosettes.

Azorella blooms usually occur in the summer. The flowers of this plant look like greenish or pale yellow balls, which do not smell at all. However, apart from each flower, each flower looks rather unattractive and even unattractive. But many inflorescences turn azorella into a real decoration of almost any landscape!

In total, there are about fifty to sixty species in the genus Azorella, but only one single species is actively grown in culture.

Where grows

Most often, azorella can be seen in the high Andes mountains.

Usage

In cultivation, azorella is usually grown on alpine slides, in gardens, or as a pot plant.

Growing and caring

It is recommended to plant azorella in sunny areas with rocky, neutral, but at the same time fairly light, well-drained and humus-rich soils. In general, azorella can grow on almost any soil. It will be useful to add a small amount of perlite to the soil - it will help make the earth lighter and more loose.

As for lighting, Azorella is not at all afraid of direct sunlight. It will grow pretty well in partial shade, however, and complete shading is dangerous only for young specimens.

Since the azorella is endowed with very long roots, the containers for planting it should be wide and deep enough, but the material from which they will be made does not really matter in this case. Despite the fact that this plant survives transplants very easily, there is no need to do this too often.

Azorella growing on the street is watered only during drought - the rest of the time its long roots easily extract moisture from the very depths of the soil themselves. But if the azorella is grown in pots, the amount of watering must be limited - putting up with drought, this plant dies when excessive accumulation of water in the soil. In winter, azorella is generally watered once every ten days.

In outdoor conditions, azorella tolerates frosts quite well - it is usually sheltered only in regions devoid of snow. And do not be afraid that the overwintered green pet will have an extremely unpresentable appearance - instead of a luxurious green carpet, dried brownish twigs will appear from under the snow. As soon as the azorella gets under the influence of the first rays of the spring sun, it will fully recover in just a few days and immediately begin to actively grow.

Azorella can be propagated both by dividing the bushes (at the end of summer or in spring), and by seeds (exclusively in spring) or by cuttings (in the summer season). However, most often this plant is still grown from seeds, both through seedlings and in a seedless way.

Azorella is more than resistant to various diseases, and pests are not at all interested in it.