Monday, January 5, 2009

Here are some tips on caring for orchids.

1. Location, temperature and humidity: Orchid will grow well at high altitude (in the lowland can live, but must meet the stipulations of the right), the temperature ranged from 15 to 35 degrees Celsius (optimum temperature of 21 degrees Celsius) with good air circulation. The humidity ranged from 65 to 70%.

2. Sun: Plants orchids taboo subject to direct sunlight, but still tolerant of the morning sun (between the hours of 7 - 9 am). Orchids, which can be less sunlight to grow thin, long and narrow leaf, and vice versa if the excess sunlight yellow leaves will burn. Orchids will grow well if you swing under the tree exuberance.

3. Process: There is no right to flush benchmark orchids. Practical way to know whether the plant is necessary is to monitor the condition of the plant media. Sprinkling with a water sprayer and used free of chlorine and other chemicals. Young orchids need a lot more water, a sprinkling 1 day 1. Orchids for a larger, 2 days once sufficient. Too much water will make orchids easily attacked by fungi that cause root and leaf rot. The orchid should not be affected because the water quickly fall off.

4. Fertilizing: Orchid in need of fertilizer to make diligent flowering. Tips for choosing the right fertilizer is a select liquid fertilizer (fertilizer leaves), NPK macro elements must be adjusted to the age of the plant (young orchids require many more elements, N, while the ready-blooming orchids require more elements P). Fertilizing is done once a week with a dose of 1 / 2 tsp to 1 liter of water. Spray fertilizer solution with the sprayer on the leaves and roots. Fertilization can be done more often by reducing the dose.

5. Planting media: Media planting the good that is not obsolete faster, easier to root attached, hollow (porous) for air circulation, can save a life and substance, and not easy to be a source of the disease. Fern is a kind of media, Moss, coconut fiber, charcoal, wood, brick or a fraction tile.

6. Pot: To be selected pots or plastic pots of land. Pot land can save water, while plastic pots do not. Orchids are also good planted in blocks of fern and hanging under the tree. Periodically repotting should be done, for example 6 months to give more space on the roots of orchids.

Rare plant "bag Semar" There are many in Taput

Plants rare "bag Semar" (Nepenthes sp) or what's called a sweet, sweeping, there are many in the Nature Reserve in the mountain village of Saut Faces Bosi, Pangaribuan Subdistrict, North Tapanuli, North Sumatra.

Plants were found above the sea surface height reached 3,300 meters, said officials at Central Conservation of Natural Resources (BKSDA).

Nature Reserve area is an area 39 hectares, more or less the distance 300 km south of Medan direction.

Was this area known as the Iron Fence Spear (iron fenced forest) because by the Dutch colonial government in 1924, this area of forest in the iron fence and barbed wire.

Semar bag plants, including plants, worm or epiphyte, which can climb to a height of 18 meters to the top of the tree.

Above the height of the plant is the "special leaves" which called Semar bag, designed to trap luck.

Semar bag like flowers because insects carrot leaves of this plant in the honey trimmed hinggalicin similar genuine interest.

Insects that are interested in one step by the sweet liquid, and will slip into a liquid that contains enzymes pencerna protein.

According to the data in the Central Conservation of the Bintuni area AlamDolok Saut area with a type of tropical rain forest vegetation.

The region is also as shelter some special types of flora and endemic species of plants, such as pine needle leaved Tapanuli (pine Merkusii), Sampinur Interest (Padacarpus imbricatus) and Sampinur String (Dacrydium junghuhnii).

Various types of plants, leaf width, there are also in this area, such as, frankincense (Styrax sp), Hoting (Quercus sp), suren (Toona SurenI) and Haundolik (Euginea Sp).

While the types of fauna that live in the Bintuni area of Worlds, among others, Forest Pig (Sus sP0, gibbon (Hylobates sindactylus), Deer (Cervus unicolor) and Goat Forest (Capricorn sumatrensis).

(ant) Trenggiling (Manis javanica) and various types of bird-like Rhinoceros Hornbill (Family Bucerotidae), Pergam (Dracula sp), also live in the nature reserve. (Ant)

source : http://beritasore.com

Spesies Plants in Borneo

CLERODENDRUM THOMSONAE

Common Name
Indonesian: Nona makan sirih, nyonya nginang

Clerodendrum thomsonae


Classification

Kingdom : Plantae (Plants)
Sub kingdom : Tracheobionta (Vascular plants)
Super division : Spermatophyta (Seed plants)
Division : Magnoliophyta (Flowering plants)
Class : Magnoliopsida (Dicotyledons)
Sub-class : Asteridae
Order : Lamiales
Family : Lamiaceae
Genus : Clerodendrum
Species : Clerodendrum thomsonae Balf.F

Close relatives:
Clerodendrum calamitosum, Clerodendrum serratum, Clerodendrum inerme



COSTUS MEGALOBRACHTEA

Common Name
Indonesian: Pacing

Costus megalobrachtea


Classification

Kingdom : Plantae (Plants)
Sub kingdom : Tracheobionta (Vascular plants)
Super division : Spermatophyta (Seed plants)
Division : Magnoliophyta (Flowering plants)
Class : Liliopsida (Monocotyledons)
Sub-class : Commelinidae
Order : Zingiberales
Family : Zingiberaceae
Genus : Costus
Species : Costus megalobrachtea K.Schum

Close relatives:
Costus malortieanus, cane-reed, Costus spiralis



DELONIX REGIA

Common Name
Indonesian: Flamboyan

Delonix regia


Classification

Kingdom : Plantae (Plants)
Sub kingdom : Tracheobionta (Vascular plants)
Super division : Spermatophyta (Seed plants)
Division : Magnoliophyta (Flowering plants)
Class : Magnoliopsida (Dicotyledons)
Sub-class : Rosidae
Order : Fabales
Family : Fabaceae
Genus : Delonix
Species : Delonix regia

source:
http://www.plantamor.com/