Bowling lotus, usually refers to the middle and small types of lotus, the scientific name is the same as lotus. The leaves of the bowl lotus are round and floating on the surface of the water. The floating leaves also extend above the water surface, while the water lily leaves are round with notches, and only the floating leaves float on the surface of the water. The underground stem is long and thick, with long knots and round leaf shields. From June to September, it is solitary at the top of pedicel, with many petals, embedded in the receptacle, red, pink, white, purple and other colors, or colored lines and edges. Nuts oval, seeds ovoid. Growth habits: I like the sunshine, but I can't bear the shade. The suitable growth temperature is 20 ~ 30 °C, and the growth stagnates when the temperature is lower than 15 °C. Like wet and afraid of dry, like relatively stable still water. The suitable pH value of fertile clay rich in organic matter is 6.5. Bowl lotus likes strong light, strong light is beneficial to its development. Hot summer is its peak growth period. Like water is afraid of flooding, water depth is easy to rot leaves, early water should be shallow, later gradually deepen. Happy fertilizer is not tolerant of fertilizer, fat is easy to rot stem, base fertilizer. Enough, less topdressing. For the soil requirements are not strict, like fertile slightly acidic clay soil, generally fertile river mud or vegetable garden soil can be. It takes about 60 days from planting to flowering.
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