Elephant tree bokarneya

Decorative deciduous indoor plant family Agavaceae, native of the southern part of North America. Do experts and amateurs houseplants are disputes: bokarneya and Nolina - this is the same or different plants? Are also called in different ways: who Nolina flower who flower Nalini, who bokarneya who bakarneya. We attribute this inconsistency to errors in translation, and disputes about ownership and bokarnei Nolin to the same species - Botany. We need to know: how is a plant adapted to grow as a houseplant? |

Bokarneya (Nolina) is not too common and are not often encountered in our homes plant, although the flower Nolina interesting looks like the original single plant.

It can diversify and beautify any home collection of decorative and deciduous plants. The special features include bokarnei unusually shaped barrel with a swelling in the lower part, which serves to build up stocks of water in case of drought, so plant Nolina called the "Bottle tree Nolina", or "elephant tree". This reservoir for water and nutrients is kaudeks.

When the humidity low, the plant consumes bokarneya moisture from kaudeksa, thickening of the trunk decreases, and the bark shrinks. When the water a lot, Nolina makes stocks swelling on the trunk grows. This feature allows you to build the plant, creating a different relationship between the value of "bottle" at the base of the trunk and the height of the flower Nolin.

Depending on how you look after Nolin, you can get a plant with a large "onion", but a little weak "mane" (with the alternation of drying the soil and abundant irrigation, as well as bright light and dry air). Either a small "bulb", but the abundance of leaves on a high barrel (at not too bright lighting and is not abundant, but quite regular watering).

Leaves Nolin also adapted to survive in conditions of semi-desert - they are narrow, elongated, rigid, their edges can be injured. Young leaves grow from the tops of the plants vertically upward, the lower bend down and eventually die.

Young and old leaves form a fairly shaggy crown, resembling a horse's tail, which also adds the originality of the gourd.

Bokarneya growing slowly. At home blossoms and grows up to 8 Bokerniya, noliyametrov height, and in room conditions bokarneya (Nolina), with good care will grow to a maximum of 2 meters, and flowering can be achieved only in greenhouses, so to get the seeds Nolin, growing in a pot conditions, the case is hopeless.

At its historic homeland bokarneya (Nolina) has about 30 varieties, but as a houseplant only one type - bokarnya (Nolina) turnback or otherwise Nolina rekurvata.