The difference between summer plum and winter plum

The difference between summer plum and winter plum

Morphological characteristics of wintersweet and wintersweet

blade

The leaves of summer sweet are mostly membranous, oval or obovate, and opposite, while the leaves of wintersweet are papery or nearly leathery, with various shapes and types, including oval, elliptical, etc., and slightly hairy or hairless.

Flowers

The flowers of summer sweet are solitary and grow at the top of young branches. They bloom in summer. The color of the outer flowers ranges from white to pink, with purple-red edges, while the inner flowers are in the shape of a corona, light yellow, with spots on the base of the ventral surface and no fragrance. The flowers of wintersweet grow in the axils of branches and have various shapes, including round, obovate, elliptical, etc. The inner flowers are shorter, with claws at the base, and are glabrous, while the base of the carpels is hairy. Summer sweet plum blossoms from May to June, while winter sweet plum blossoms from November to March.

fruit

The achenes of the summer sweet are rectangular, dark brown in color, and covered with white hairs. The fruiting period is from September to October. The wintersweet fruit is jar-shaped or obovate-elliptical, covered with hair, and the fruiting period is from April to October.

The propagation method of summer sweet and winter sweet

The propagation methods of summer sweet are mostly sowing and division, while the propagation methods of winter sweet are mostly artificial propagation, rootstock propagation and good variety grafting propagation.

Disease and Pest Control of Wintersweet and Wintersweet

The main diseases of summer sweet potato and winter sweet potato are basically the same, but the main pests of summer sweet potato include scale insects and aphids, while the main pests of winter sweet potato include red-necked longhorn beetles and Japanese wax scales and other pests.

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