Play with meat, understand some professional terms

Play with meat, understand some professional terms

Succulent Name

When searching for a certain succulent plant on the Internet, you will always see family, genus, and species. What are these?

Species name

Also called the scientific name, each plant has only one scientific name.

Genus name

Species with similar morphology and growth habits are grouped together into one genus.

Family name

A technical term for plant classification. Plants with morphological structures close to one or several genera are classified into one family. For example, the Crassulaceae family has 30 genera.

Dioecious (monogamous)

A common term in succulent care is bisexual flower, which refers to a flower that has both pistils and stamens. Succulents can complete pollination by themselves. After flowering, it can bear fruit normally.

Dioecious

It means that unisexual flowers are grown on different plants, thus giving rise to the distinction between female plants and male plants.

Hibernation

The plant is in a state of natural growth stagnation, accompanied by leaf fall or death of above-ground parts. Growth occurs in winter and summer.

Winter and summer species

Summer type

A succulent plant that grows in summer and enters a dormant period in winter. The main flowering time is in summer, but if the weather in the area is too hot, the succulent will still go dormant.

Winter type

The growing season is in winter and the plants are dormant in summer, so they are called winter-type species or summer-dormant plants. The winter here refers to the winter climate in the place of origin. If the temperature is too low in winter, the succulents will still hibernate.

It is quite reasonable to say that succulent plants grown at home, kept at a moderate temperature, rarely go into complete dormancy.

Yellowing

It refers to the phenomenon that the leaves of plants fade and turn yellow and the stems grow excessively due to lack of light.

Brocade

Many succulent plants have the word "Jin" added after their names, but it's unclear what the difference is. In fact, brocade, also known as colorful brocade, means that the whole or part of the stem has lost the ability to produce chlorophyll, while other pigments are relatively active, causing red, white, yellow, purple, orange and other spots to appear on the surface of the stem.

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