Graceful and graceful plants with flower bedspreads of different colors and juicy green leaves - these are callas. Caring for them is simple. In response, you can get the original long-flowering yellow, raspberry lilac and other flowers. The most familiar and common flower with a white color.
Calla belongs to the Aroid family. Its Latin name is Zantedeschia aethiopica. It is also known by the following names: Ethanopian Callas, Zantedesia or Lilicalla.
Description and specifications
This is a perennial plant native to South Africa. It reaches a height of eighty centimeters in its natural growth environment (warm, humid forests) and has six species. Its characteristics: a stem-like fleshy root, a heart-shaped leaf blade of dark green color, an inflorescence is an ears with a large covering sheet at the base that surrounds it. This “veil” can have a different color: from white to black. Decorative flowers lasts a month and a half.
Home callas
A worthy decoration of any room is home calla lilies. Caring for it allows you to give special sophistication to rooms, terraces, balconies, loggias and winter gardens. Especially popular for these purposes are New Zealand calla lilies with chic foliage and flowers of various shades.
Home callas, the care of which during the growing process is not particularly difficult, grow up to seventy centimeters. Their viability lasts up to eight years.
Calla Care
The plant loves well-lit places, however, direct sunlight is not recommended. Drafts should also be avoided. For calla, the optimum temperature in the summer is about twenty-three degrees, in winter - about thirteen degrees. Watering should be carried out as the soil dries, except during the summer period. Then the flower requires a little attention, but it's all the same, unthinking callas. Care on hot days consists in daily watering and spraying large leaves of the plant quickly evaporating moisture. They nourish it several times a month. Any complex fertilizer for flowering plants is suitable. In the fall, top dressing is stopped and watering is reduced. Yellowing and withered leaves cut.
Until spring, the plant must be stored in a cool room, not allowing the soil to dry out. During this period, a half-light will do. In the spring, calla should be accustomed to bright light gradually. The tuber is grown in spring, placing it in a lighted place and spraying it with water two to three times a week. After about two weeks, when the tuber becomes heavy and dense, it is planted in a pot.
The substrate is prepared in the following ratio: turf land (three), sand (one), charcoal (one and a half). It is necessary to monitor the fertility and water permeability of the soil, keeping it moist. Shoots appear after about three weeks. Then the plant develops rapidly, turning in two weeks into a lush bush with peduncles and buds forming. The buds open in about five days and bloom up to one and a half months.
Calla is a flower, the care of which should be very sensitive to prevent the appearance of diseases. The plant is susceptible to fungal diseases, such as anthracnose, bacterial, root and sulfur rot. They may appear due to improper conditions of detention. That is, due to lack of lighting, excessive excess or lack of watering, drafts, overheating or hypothermia of the plant, lack of recharge and soil infertility.
After the plant fades, the peduncles are cut, and the plant is transplanted into a larger pot. Calla is propagated by dividing the rhizomes during transplantation.