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Christmas cactuses bloom in winter, when the days grow cool and short. While low light levels trigger flowering, fertilizing Christmas cactus at the right time and in the right way is key for ...
With most plants, you'll want to water them more often during the summer than during the winter, but the Christmas cactus is an exception because of its bloom season. The Christmas cactus blooms ...
Christmas flowers are the popular flowers used during the festive season of Christmas. [1] In many nations, seasonal flowers and plants such as Poinsettia , Christmas cactus , holly , Christmas rose , ivy and mistletoe form a major part of traditional Christmas decoration .
The Amaryllidaceae are mainly terrestrial (rarely aquatic) flowering plants that are herbaceous or succulent geophytes (occasionally epiphytes) that are perennial, with the exception of four species. Most genera grow from bulbs, but a few such as Agapanthus, Clivia and Scadoxus develop from rhizomes (underground stems). [5]
Prostanthera lasianthos - Victorian Christmas bush. [7] Several plants in Australia are referred to or used as Christmas trees, including Nuytsia floribunda and the Norfolk Island Pine, which is commonly sold in Australian stores during the Christmas season and is usually marketed as a "Living Christmas tree". [8]
Flowering synchrony is the amount of overlap between flowering periods of plants in their mating season compared to what would be expected to occur randomly under given environmental conditions. [1] A population which is flowering synchronously has more plants flowering (producing pollen or receiving pollen) at the same time than would be ...
Florigens (or flowering hormone) are proteins capable of inducing flowering time in angiosperms. [1] The prototypical florigen is encoded by the FT gene and its orthologs in Arabidopsis and other plants. [2] Florigens are produced in the leaves, and act in the shoot apical meristem of buds and growing tips. [3] [4]
Agapanthus inapertus, the Drakensberg agapanthus, drooping agapanthus, or closed African lily, [1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae, native to open grasslands, forest margins and mountainous, rocky areas of Mozambique, Eswatini (Swaziland), and South Africa (Transvaal and Natal).