2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
The reed palm that came to us from Mexico, unlike most indoor plants that require well-lit places, can grow in shade, getting used to hiding in nature under the crowns of taller tropical plants. It is able to purify the air from chemical impurities harmful to humans, and therefore is a welcome guest in offices and homes
Slow growing palm
In the native element
Hamedorea (Chamaedorea), although stunted, has many faces. It can be a liana, nimbly climbing the powerful trunks of tropical giants, a multi-stemmed thin shrub, or a single-stemmed tree.
Many faces and leaves that adorn the palm tree. They can be simple, whole, or decided to split into two halves in the upper part, and those palm trees that crossed the ocean to decorate our homes have decorative feathery leaves associated with palm trees.
Hamedorea is a dioecious plant. To have your own seeds, you should get a couple of opposite-sex palms. Flowers on females are brightly colored (yellow, orange, bright red), but they are located singly. Small male flowers appear in close-knit rows, gathering in panicle inflorescences or spike-shaped fragrant inflorescences, painted in red or yellow. Mexicans add unopened male buds to salads for brightness, aroma and vitality.
Lonely female flowers are reborn into the same lonely fruits, creating the appearance of small beads strung on a plant branch.
Varieties
* Hamedorea graceful (Chamaedorea elegans) - a thin trunk of a low palm tree with feathery leaves can often be found in the halls of hotels or institutions.
* Hamedorea high (Chamaedorea elatior) is a less popular palm tree, rather a liana that grows up to 20 m. Having no thorns, it clings to trees with hard edges at the tip of its long leaves.
* Hamedorea Costa Rican (Chamaedorea costaricana) is a palm tree with beautiful fan-shaped leaves.
* Hamedorea cataractum (Chamaedorea cataractum) is a dwarf palm tree with dark green glossy leaves, consisting of long thin leaves. Although the concept of "dwarf" in relation to palms suggests a plant height of up to 2 meters.
* Hamedorea stolonife (Chamaedorea stolonifera) is an original and bright representative of the genus with a creeping stem-rhizome (stolon), giving birth to new palms far from the mother. It is a short, shade-tolerant palm with simple, whole, pointed leaves that look like a fish's tail. Capable of becoming a weed.
Growing
One of the advantages of Hamedorea is its shade tolerance, acquired in the Mexican tropics, where the palm tree prefers to hide under the crown of more powerful representatives of tropical vegetation. Excessive heat is undesirable for her, and therefore the temperature in the room should be no more than 20 degrees in summer, but not less than plus 12 degrees in winter.
The relatively simple cultivation of a palm tree assumes a soil rich in organic matter, large planting capacities and periodic combinations of watering the plant with fertilizing with complex fertilizer. And Hamedorea loves moisture, so in the summer watering should be abundant, but not fanatical. Plus summer leaf spraying. In winter, watering is rare, but does not allow the soil to dry out.
During our cold winters, Hamedorea prefers to live indoors, although in summer it can be exposed to the open air.
To create decorative compositions, several palm trees are planted in one pot, and some species give a lot of growth, independently creating picturesque paintings.
Reproduction
It is easier to acquire Hamedorea in a garden center than to try to propagate it by seeds yourself.
Sometimes propagated by root suckers.
Enemies
It is very important not to overdo it with watering, so as not to provoke root rot.
The palm tree manages to defend itself from insect pests on its own. But sometimes ticks can attack it.
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