Abutilon Amazon

Family Malvaceae. Homeland - Brazil. evergreen shrub with light green serrated leaves resembling maple, so the plant is sometimes called "potted maple." Pinkish-purple bell-shaped flowers up to 4-5 cm. It blooms profusely from spring to autumn, sometimes in winter. Contained in a light, cool place at a temperature no higher than 15 ° C in summer watering often, in winter - less. In the spring the plant is cut by 1/3 to cause the growth of young shoots and abundant flowering. Transplanted a mixture of turf and leaf earth, humus, peat and sand (2: 1: 1: 1: 0, 5). Summer fed complete mineral or organic fertilizers. You can stand on the balcony, protected from direct sunlight. Propagation spring cuttings, rooting them in sand or a mixture of peat and sand (1: 1), preferably in a heated room teplichke soil to 22-25 ° C. In cuttings cut shoots, removing them from the buds.

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