Ginura is a genus belonging to the Asteraceae family, and includes over 50 species. The flower's homeland is the tropical regions of Africa and Asia. This is a herbaceous plant with long stems, winding along the soil. Because of them, ginura got its name (in Greek it means “woman with a tail”).
General information
The roots form tubers, and in some plants they are fibrous. The stem of ginura is powerful and becomes woody when aging. The leaves of different species can vary greatly.
Ginura flowers can grow one at a time, or can be collected in inflorescences; the color of the flower varies bright color– purple, red, yellow. The flower of the ginura gives off a stench, so flowering is usually prevented by plucking the buds.
Remember that ampelous types of ginura are poisonous and you must ensure that children and animals do not have access to the flower.
Varieties and types
— evergreen, growing up to a meter tall. Has alternate leaves. Below they are oval shape, at the top - sharp with purple fluff. The orange ginura got its name due to its bright orange flowers.
is a rare and expensive plant with medicinal properties. Used mainly in oriental medicine.
- a bushy species grown at home. The leaves are oblong, pointed, covered with purple fluff, some have a delicate pink color.
Or sarmentosa - resembles orange ginura, but due to its drooping bush it can be grown in room conditions. The height of the flower fluctuates around 50 cm. The leaves are small, pubescent with fibers. purple.
— the cultivation of this flower is mainly carried out in greenhouses. It has large, ellipsoid-shaped leaves. The “tails” of the plant grow up to two meters. It has beautiful view when grown at home.
Ginura care at home
This plant requires bright lighting; if it is not there, the color of the leaves will fade. You can safely keep the ginura on the windowsill, but in the hottest hours of the day it is better to put the flower in the shade. In winter, the plant needs additional lighting.
When preparing soil for ginura, the main thing is to make sure that it is loose and has neutral acidity. You can use a mixture of humus, river sand and leafy soil mixed with turf.
The best temperature for the plant is summer period fluctuates around 20 degrees. In winter, in the absence of additional lighting, the temperature should be reduced to 13 degrees. If the lighting is designed properly, the temperature can be left high.
Ginura loves heavy watering, which should be done after the top of the soil in the container with the plant has dried. IN winter period, if the lighting is low, the flower is watered little, but if a phytolamp is installed, then the ginura will need the same amount of water as in the summer. Ginura should be watered with settled water, or rain water. Do not allow drops to fall on the leaves.
Air humidity is not very important for this flower. But still in winter, when the room is heated, the pot with the plant must be lowered into a container with wet pebbles. Spraying is not advisable, because this will cause the leaves of the plant to lose their attractiveness.
In the spring, the ginura needs to be pruned. Otherwise, it will have a less attractive appearance, and the shoots will grow more slowly. This process is not labor-intensive - you just need to pinch the ends of the flower stems.
During the growing season, vases need to be fertilized with ginura for 15 days. To do this, use conventional mineral fertilizers.
Ginura transplantation is carried out if necessary in the spring. This is done because only young flowers have purple fibers and to keep the plant attractive, it is replanted every couple of years.
Ginura reproduction
Reproduction of ginura at home is carried out in most cases by cuttings, as this is the easiest way.
In the spring and summer, you just need to cut off a cutting with a couple of nodes and place it in water. After fifteen days, the cuttings should have roots and can be planted.
Diseases and pests
- Ginura, at proper care, almost never gets sick. But otherwise she might get hit various pests.
- Scale insects eat the juice of the flower. As a result, the leaves of the ginura turn yellow and dry, and the plant dies.
- Mealybugs can cause spots on the leaves of ginura, which are a consequence of the secretions of these pests. The affected flower grows much slower than the others.
- Spider mites feed on flower sap. They can appear on many plants, excluding only aquatic ones.
- If the ginura has white dots at the bottom of the leaf, then this is a mite infestation. It must be exterminated, as these pests carry incurable plant infections, from which your window sill can suffer greatly.
- The aphid infects the ginura and feeds on its juice. It settles on the underside of the leaf and is easily identified by its characteristic sticky drops.
The perennial plant Ginura belongs to the Asteraceae family. This is a subshrub, but there are species herbaceous plants, grows very quickly. The stems are: erect or climbing up to 1 m. The plant’s homeland is Africa and Asia.
Leaves different forms, green on top, and with inside the cloves are purple-violet in color with fluffy edges. Small yellow flowers They smell bad.
Lighting
Ginura cannot live without bright sun or additional lighting in winter. With a lack of light, the plant loses its purple charm and fibers.
Direct sun needs to be shaded, but in winter backlighting is necessary.
Temperature
An important condition is moderate temperature: in summer +20-25o C.
In winter, +12-14o C, but lower temperatures are detrimental to the plant. Ginura is afraid of drafts, but the room needs to be ventilated more often.
Watering and humidity
Flower care instructions:
- The plant does not need spraying.
- During the growing season it is necessary to water well. You need to make sure that upper layer managed to dry out.
- In winter, reduce watering.
Important! Be sure to monitor the water temperature; it should always be warm and soft. Beautiful purple leaves are afraid of water and spots will appear on them.
The soil
For ginura to develop well, you need soft soil. There are universal primers on sale, but you can create your own. You need to mix well in equal proportions: turf and good humus, leaf soil is required, and ½ sand is also needed.
Feeding time
In warm weather, the plant needs to be fed once a month; complex fertilizers for ornamental plants are ideal.
With the onset of winter, you should not feed.
Transfer
The beautiful ginura is transplanted if necessary. In spring, you can use the transshipment method. The pot is chosen a little looser than the previous one. Required good drainage a couple of centimeters at the bottom of the container.
Trimming
Before flowering in spring, the ginura plant requires pruning. In warm weather, new shoots need to be pinched to form a thick and even crown.
If you do not trim the plant, the ginura will be bare at the base, and the lateral shoots will grow less and less and will begin to weaken.
Reproduction of ginura
To the delight of gardeners, ginura is very easy to propagate. To do this, break off the sprout and place it in a container of water or place the cutting in a mixture of peat and sand.
Typically, roots appear in about 8-10 days. Then the cuttings of the plant can be planted in small pots.
Even experienced flower growers may encounter problems when maintaining ginura:
- The leaves have lost their purple tint - most likely this is a lack of light.
- The leaves began to fall off - there is not enough moisture, the plant may be more than 3 years old (old).
- The leaves are growing smaller and smaller - the plant does not have enough light, perhaps they forgot to prune it in the spring.
- Brown (black) spots appeared on the beautiful purple leaves - these are signs of water getting in during spraying.
Possible diseases
The plant is sometimes attacked by mealybugs, scale insects or spider mites.
The diseased plant must be treated with an insecticide. Ginuru rarely gets sick, but he is very sensitive to excess water. If the water stagnates, it will cause various rots.
Gynura sarmentosa
A chic perennial semi-shrub, ribbed stems, sometimes up to 60 cm. The leaves are smaller than those of Ginura Orange, tender and soft, in the shape of a circle, with a spectacular purple edge. The flowers are small in size, yellow (orange) with a bad odor.
Orange Gynura (Gynura aurantica)
This is a semi-shrub with climbing stems that have luxurious purple hairs. Saw-shaped foliage of a wonderful purple color. The lower leaves are up to 20 cm, and the upper ones are smaller, adjacent to the stem. It blooms with yellow (orange) flowers with an unpleasant odor.
Though capricious plant, but thanks to its unusual beauty, many gardeners successfully breed it at home. Create a Ginure favorable conditions, and she will amaze her owners with her purple soft tenderness.
Make sure the flower is unusual and different types in the photo of the ginura below.
Photo of ginura
Gynura is a fast-growing perennial, belonging to the Asteraceae family. In nature, ginura is common in Africa and Asia.
Ginura is a subshrub or herbaceous evergreen plant. Its stems are ribbed, erect or climbing, reaching 1 meter in length. Leaf plates have different shape and size, usually green above, purple below, jagged, covered with purple hairs. Few decorative small inflorescences of yellow color are located at the tips of the shoots. They smell bad.
Lighting
Gtnura needs bright lighting throughout the year. In the shade, the ginura will lose its purple color. Windows facing west and east are most suitable for the plant. Ginura located on the southern windows must be shaded. IN winter time the plant needs additional lighting.
Temperature
Ginura needs moderate temperatures. In summer it is best if it fluctuates in the range of 20-25 degrees. In winter, cooler conditions are required, within 12-14 degrees, but not lower than 12 degrees. Ginura does not tolerate drafts, but needs to ventilate the room.
Air humidity
Ginura is absolutely undemanding to indoor air humidity and will do just fine without spraying.
Watering
During the growing season, the ginura needs uniform, abundant watering; the top layer of the substrate should dry out a little between waterings. In winter, watering is reduced somewhat. The water used to water the ginura should be soft and warm. If water gets on the leaves, they will remain brown spots.
The soil
For successful cultivation gynura can be used ready-made universal primer, or you can cook it yourself. Mix humus, turf and leaf soil in equal proportions, add 1/2 part of sand.
Fertilizer
During the growing season, in spring-summer period, the ginura is fed once a month with complex fertilizer for ornamental foliage plants; in winter, feeding is stopped.
Transfer
Ginura needs to be replanted as needed. Transplantation is carried out by transshipment every spring into a larger pot. It is necessary to ensure good drainage at the bottom of the pot.
Crown formation
In the spring, before the start of the growing season, the ginura needs pruning. Throughout the season, the shoots must be pinched, thus forming a thick beautiful crown. If you do not trim and pinch the ginura, the shoots will stretch out and become bare at the base, the side shoots will cease to form at all or become sparse and weak.
It is best to prevent ginura from blooming; pick off the buds as soon as they appear.
Ginura can be easily propagated by apical cuttings. Simply break off a branch of the plant and place it directly in water or a mixture of sand and peat. The roots will appear in 7-10 days, after which the young plants are planted in small pots. Ginura grows quickly, root new cuttings every 3-4 years and throw out the old plant.
Diseases and pests
Ginura can be affected by scale insects, spider mites and mealybugs. If the plant is damaged by pests, treat it with an insecticide. Diseases in this plant are rare, but overwatering and stagnation of water at the roots can cause various rots.
Difficulties in growing
- Ginura leaves lose their purple color - perhaps due to lack of lighting.
- Leaf falling means lack of moisture or the plant is old.
- Leaves become small - lack of lighting or nutrition.
- The plant is stretched - there is a lack of light or spring pruning has not been done.
- Black or brown spots on the leaves are caused by moisture getting on them.
Orange Gynura (Gynura aurantiaca)- a subshrub with climbing stems strewn with purple hairs. The leaves are serrate, purple-burgundy in color. Lower leaves rounded, up to 20 cm long, the upper ones are smaller, tightly adjacent to the stems. Yellow or orange flowers smell unpleasant.
Gynura sarmentosa is a perennial subshrub with ribbed stems that barely grow to 60 cm in height. The leaves are smaller than those of Ginura Orange, soft and round, green with purple edges. Yellow-orange flowers with an unpleasant odor.
Ginura or blue bird - ornamental plant family Asteraceae. Beautiful foliage The plant has purple pubescence, which makes the flower spectacular and catchy.
The velvety texture of the foliage creates a fascinating play of textures (see photo), as if flirting with textiles in the interior.
Description
Ginura (gynura) is an evergreen subshrub of the Asteraceae family. In natural conditions There are up to 100 species of this plant. At home, only the wattled ginura and the orange ginura, also known as purple, are bred.
Translated from Greek it means “Woman with a tail.” The plant is characterized by rapid growth of shoots, which when good care can reach 2 m in length. The foliage of the plant is wavy, serrated and toothed at the edges. On top, both leaves and stems are covered with beautiful, soft purple hairs.
Types of ginura
4 main types of ginura have become widespread. Some of them can be grown at home, while for others it is necessary to create a habitat close to natural.
Ginura orange
A very tall bush. The pubescent ribbed shoots reach a height of 1 m. The lower leaves are ovoid, the upper ones are pointed at the end, petiolate, and colored violet-red. What gives the plant its beauty is the hairiness that covers both the leaves and stems. Purple ginura, aka orange, received its name due to the color of the pile and flowers. The pile is purple, and the flowers are orange, small, and can be yellow-golden.
Ginura vulcanis
A plant with drooping vines, therefore this type it is preferable to grow as a hanging plant indoor plant. The height of the climbing ginura does not exceed 60 cm. The plant has small but long foliage - up to 7 cm. The homeland of the species is East Africa.
Ginura climbing
The species is very rare. Demanding about tropical conditions content, so it is grown mainly in greenhouses. Appearance the plant resembles a semi-spreading shrub. Small teeth run along the edges of the oval leaves. It is recommended to use in hanging flowerpots, as the vines reach 2 meters.
Ginura prostrate
This medicinal plant which is famous for its medicinal properties. When you eat the leaves of the plant, you can forget that any diseases exist.
Ginura variegata
Branched shrub with oblong pointed leaves. The leaves themselves are beautiful - green, pink with purple edges.
Care
For successful cultivation, it is important to maintain light levels, maintain optimal temperature and water with settled water.
Lighting
Ginura is a light-loving plant. When choosing a location, it is better to lean towards the south side, but provide the plant with diffused lighting rather than direct light. Sun rays. If there is no other way out, it is recommended to shade the plant at lunchtime.
Can be grown on windowsills with east side. In winter, it is necessary to provide additional lighting to the plants. If the flower does not have enough natural light, the stems will stretch and the plant will lose its decorative effect.
Temperature
On a note! It is important to ensure that the plant is not exposed to drafts.
When kept in winter, the optimal temperature is +12-14 °C. At this time, daylight hours are significantly reduced, so it is better to grow in cool conditions.
Watering and air humidity
Ginura has fuzzy foliage, so it is not recommended to spray the plantings. For supporting natural humidity You will need to install a fountain, an aquarium or an artificial pond next to the pot.
The plant needs timely watering with cleaned and warm water, without unnecessary impurities. The leaves should not be allowed to lose turgor. Although they quickly restore their strength after watering, this is reflected in the growth of the branch. Many gardeners recommend watering in a tray.
Soil and fertilizing
It needs to be grown in nutritious soil. The flower responds well to feeding. During the growing season it is necessary to feed every 2 weeks. As fertilizers, you can use complex fertilizers, which contain organic and mineral substances.
Rest period
From late autumn to spring, the ginura begins a period of rest. To prevent the green pet from stretching out in short daylight conditions, it is necessary to reduce the temperature to +12 °C.
Crown formation and pruning
Ginura, if you do not pinch the top, mainly grows in one stem, which makes the flower unattractive. Therefore, to form lush bush the flower must be pinched above the level of 4 leaves. To do this, use your fingernail to remove slightly emerging new leaves. After a while it produces many side shoots.
In the video you will see tips on how to do it correctly:
Reproduction
While pinching the plant, radical pruning can be done. All material that turns out to be surplus is recommended to be used for growing new specimens.
Ginura cuttings take root well in the soil. After they are planted in a pot, you need to arrange a mini-greenhouse for them for better rooting. Cuttings take root very quickly. After 2 weeks, the plants begin to grow and begin to actively increase the purple mass.
Transfer
Young specimens need annual replanting. Older specimens can be replanted once every 2 years.
Diseases and pests
Proper care is the key to healthy plants. If the rules are not followed indoor flower affected by various pests and susceptible to diseases.
Scale insects stick to plant stems and feed on their sap. As a result, the specimen loses its foliage and dries out.
When infested with mealybugs, unsightly spots appear on the leaves, which subsequently turn yellow. A diseased flower is stunted in growth.
Spider mites grow on plants in dry air. Their appearance is indicated by a barely noticeable cobweb on back side leaf.
Beneficial features
Some varieties are medicinal, but only poisonous species are grown indoors.
For example, in one of the Chinese provinces a rather beautiful, but very expensive medicinal plant is grown - Ginura pinnateris.
Composition of Ginura pinnateris:
- microelements;
- bioflavonoids;
- saponins;
- polysaccharides;
- volatile oils.
This type has found wide application in folk medicine. It is equally popular prostrate ginura. It is grown in China, Japan and America. It has been noticed that those people who eat prostrate ginura do not know what diseases are.
Benefits of ginura prostrata:
- reduces blood pressure;
- normalizes blood sugar levels;
- cleanses the liver and kidneys;
- reduces weight.
To feel healthy and full of energy, you will need to eat 2 ginura leaves in the morning and evening. Leaves can be added to vegetable salads.
Signs and superstitions
Among the people, ginura received a very ugly name - crocodile. The fact is that when flowering it emits an unpleasant odor Moreover, she belongs to the sign of Scorpio.
But in fact, the flower cleanses the house from bad energy, improves sleep quality. It is believed that if there is ginura in the house, even small children will not be afraid of the dark.
It has been noticed that the soft leaves of ginur can soften the character of the rudest owner.
Growing ginura is simply necessary, because the plant is the path to female happiness. The flower protects lovers from rash actions.
The plants are undemanding in care, propagate well from apical cuttings and grow quickly. Therefore, with little effort, you can create beautiful interior compositions from chic purple flowers that will bring bright colors into everyday life.
Once my mother-in-law boasted that she planted a “crocodile” in her home. I imagined some kind of cactus. But when I arrived to visit, I saw a purple “creature” with soft, slightly fluffy leaves. It was ginura - on the one hand, a simple home decorative foliage, and on the other, a cute exotic plant that will add coziness to any home.
Arriving to us from the African and Asian tropics, ginura captivated flower growers not only with the abstract colors of its leaves, but also with its weaving branches. Therefore, for some people, ginura is an ampelous plant.
Translated from Greek, “ginura” means “tailed woman.” This “tail” means nothing more than the many lashes that the plant grows during its life. If you don't pinch them, ginura can quickly braid the entire window. Of course, the length of individual branches can reach several meters!
The leaves of ginura have teeth along the edges, the entire leaf blade is pubescent.
The flowers are modest and can be confused with a wilted dandelion. Most “ginurov owners” do not even allow them to bloom - they cut off the peduncle as soon as they see it. Of course: this flower is not so beautiful that you would risk the entire bush because of it, which puts so much effort into flowering that it may die.
By the way, if you do not pinch off the flower, it will delight you for a long time - from spring to late autumn.
Medicinal properties of this plant
This information is given more for informational purposes, because it is not our popular “tame” varieties that are considered useful. But still…
- Ginura pinnadris is grown in China as an expensive medicinal plant.
- The prostrate ginura is also known in China, as well as in Japan and the USA. By the way, some flower growers are already growing it here, in their homes. It can be eaten (say, crumbled into salads; the taste of such ginura is almost indistinguishable from lettuce). What will it give? You will almost stop getting sick. The plant helps normalize weight and blood sugar, lowers blood pressure, cleanses cholesterol from the liver, and gives strength. 3-2 leaves per day are enough for an adult. It is better to eat them in the morning.
Signs and beliefs associated with ginura
So, thanks to the many villi covering the leaf (depending on the type of plant, they can be either violet, pink or purple), the ginuru is called “crocodile”.
Psychics say: small plant can cleanse the whole house of evil and negative energy. It can drive you out scary dreams, and the darkness will no longer frighten you.
Many also believe that:
- Ginura attracts female happiness;
- the plant does not allow an amorous person to give his heart to the wrong partner (but in order to “activate” such help, the pot should be kept in partial shade);
- the flower pacifies its owner, so it is worth keeping it in a family where there is often scandal or speaking in a raised voice.
But! The plant doesn't smell very good. Because of this, it is classified as a member of the constellation Scorpio. If this is your horoscope sign, do not deny yourself the pleasure and have such a flower at home. But do not place it in the bedroom, but keep it on the balcony or in the kitchen.
Types of indoor ginura
Scientists are still arguing how many species of this flower exist in nature. Some say less than fifty, others say more than a hundred. But in any case, only a few “domesticated” species can be seen on our windowsills.
Important! Some of them are poisonous, so do not give ginura to owners of cats, parrots, or young parents.
Orange
Purple evergreen bush, grows up to a meter in height. By the way, the leaves and stem of the flower are actually green, but the thick colored pile camouflages the plant so much that it appears purple both from a distance and up close.
The species got its name because of the flowers.
“In the wild,” such a ginura can be found on the island of Java.
Braided
This is also a species with green leaves and purple hair.
But the stems of the plant stretch not up, but down, and droop beautifully, so such flowerpots are planted not in pots, but in hanging planter. In height, this bush rarely extends higher than 60 cm.
The wattled ginura came to us from East Africa.
Climbing (climbing)
This kind of shrub can be seen more often in a greenhouse than in apartments.
It blooms with the same “dandelions” as the orange ginura, but its leaves are already greener.
If you want to grow it at home, plant it directly in a hanging box or hanging pot. Long (up to 2 m) shoots will fit well into the decor of your balcony.
Variegated
Modern decorative hybrid.
The “newborn” leaves of the plant are all soft pink, but the older they get, the more they turn green. And not all over the leaf plate, but in places. It looks very nice. Old leaves never completely get rid of their pink border.
Basic care for this “African girl”
- Light. He loves his plant very much - after all, it was “born” in Africa! You can safely place the pot not only on the western, but also on the southern windowsill (but on the latter, still shade your furry pet a little during the midday hours). In winter, when the sun “works at half strength,” it’s not a sin to highlight the ginura.
- Temperature. In winter, the plant rests and practically does not grow. 14 or even 12 degrees is enough for him. In spring and summer, it needs warmth - about 20 degrees (and higher).
- Air humidity. Here the plant is unpretentious. However, in winter the radiator can dry out the “resting” ginura. But you can’t spray it! Just place a container of water next to it (or place the pot in a tray with wet pebbles or expanded clay).
- Watering. If you see that the top of the soil has dried out, bring a watering can and thoroughly water the substrate. But this is in the summer. If in winter your ginura “cools” at the above-mentioned 12 degrees, significantly reduce the number of waterings, otherwise the roots simply will not cope with the excess water for them and will begin to rot.
- Nutrition. In spring and summer, you can pamper ginura with complex fertilizer for decorative leaves (2 times a month). In the fall you can no longer give it, and even more so in the winter.
- Diseases. Most of all, the ginura is afraid of only one misfortune - root rot. Therefore, when replanting, always place drainage at the bottom of the pot (if you forgot to buy expanded clay, at least break some foam).
- Pests. This African exotic is to the taste of many of our insects - and spider mites, and whiteflies, and scale insects. That’s why it’s so important to keep ginura in a humid climate in hot weather or when radiators “terrorize” (I remind you - no spraying, a tray with expanded clay is our everything).
Pinching, pruning and propagation
To prevent ginura from growing chaotically, the tops of its stems need to be pinched and excess branches cut off. This is done in the spring.
This way you will get a lot of material for propagating ginura, since this plant propagates by cuttings.
The length of the cutting can be small - the main thing is that it has at least 2 internodes.
Just place the sprig in a glass of water. In just 12-15 days, roots will grow on it, and it can be transferred to the ground.
You can see how shoots are pruned and rooted in practice here:
Transfer
It is also held in the spring. Mature ginura needs to be transferred to a larger pot about once every 2 years. This procedure significantly rejuvenates the plant. The fact is that if a plant gets stuck in old soil and a pot, its old leaves will lose their beautiful purple color.
Which soil will do this plant?
- 0.5 parts sand,
- 1 part deciduous soil,
- 1 part turf soil,
- 1 part compost (leaf humus).
Take a small pot so that the ginura grows up (into shoots) and not down (into roots).
An example of a successful ginura transplant will be shown in this video:
An experienced “flower grower” will tell you more about growing ginura in this video: