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Nertera (lat. Nertera) Is a luxurious ornamental fruiting flowering plant from the Madder family.
Description
Nertera is a relatively medium-sized herbaceous perennial, endowed with numerous creeping stems. The bright green and spectacularly shiny leaves of this plant are characterized by an oval shape and reach half a centimeter in diameter. With proper care, nerter can easily grow to thirty-five or even forty centimeters in diameter.
Single white nertera flowers are usually four- or five-membered. They bloom at the very end of spring and are equipped with funnel-shaped or tubular green corollas.
The main highlight of nertera is the presence of a huge number of spectacular bright berries. These fleshy fruits range in size from eight to ten millimeters, and two seeds can be found inside each berry. As for their color, it can be not only red, but also white, orange or yellow. By the way, it is precisely because of these fruits that nerter got its second name - it turns out that it is often also called coral moss.
Where grows
Nerteru can be found mainly in the South American territory. She feels especially good in subtropical or tropical zones. Often this plant can be seen in the vastness of New Zealand, Mexico, Australia and Southeast Asia.
Usage
In most cases, nertera is grown as a houseplant.
Growing and caring
Growing nertera as a pot plant will not be difficult - it is much more difficult to cultivate it as a perennial. You can grow this beauty on any windows, with the exception of the northern ones, while it is desirable that winter heating in the room does not please with special warmth.
On the whole, nertera is very undemanding to the soil, the most important thing is that it is as nutritious and loose as possible. This plant can be safely planted in any universal ready-made earthen mixtures intended for flowering crops.
Lighting for the successful development of nertera should be diffused, but at the same time quite powerful. At low temperatures, it is quite acceptable to keep it in the direct rays of the sun, and in hot weather, their exposure to a beautiful plant should be limited.
In winter, it is recommended to keep nertera at fairly cool temperatures, while if it is grown as a potted plant, then a slight decrease in them is quite acceptable, and if nertera is cultivated as a perennial, it is important to try to maintain the temperature regime in the range from ten to twelve degrees. A plant growing in a warm place is often too depleted, and a violation of the dormant period in general often leads to its death.
Summer watering of nertera must be abundant (the soil should always be slightly damp), and in winter they should be infrequent and not too generous: the number and volume of watering is increased only after new young growth appears on the plant. As for spraying, they are mandatory in the heat, but at low temperatures they can not be carried out.
The room in which the nertera grows should be ventilated as often as possible. Ideally, if such an opportunity exists, it should generally be kept in the open fresh air, bringing it into the room only after the fruits begin to form on it. By the way, when all the berries fall off, nertera are often thrown away.
In the midst of the growing season, nerter is fed about once or twice a month, while high-quality combined fertilizers will be most suitable for feeding. And nertera reproduces in the spring by dividing the bushes.
