Heather is often planted in courtyards, roadsides and street intersections, and the crown can be trimmed and shaped. Wood can be used to make wheels and handles of utensils, seeds can be used to extract oil to make soap, roots can be used to extract baking glue, and fruits can also be used as raw materials for wine making.
Dried leaves can be used medicinally and have diuretic, antipyretic and analgesic effects. The efficacy of heather is recorded in the ancient books Bielu, Materia Medica from the Heart and Compendium of Materia Medica. According to the biography of Yang Taizhen, after the change of Ma Wei, heather was called straight tree and acacia tree.
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Photinia is native to the southern slope of Qinling Mountains in Shaanxi, southern Gansu and the provinces south of Huaihe River Basin. Global distribution in China, Japanese and Indonesian; In China, it is distributed in Anhui, Gansu, Henan, Jiangsu, Shaanxi, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Fujian, Taiwan Province, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou.
I like warm and humid climate, I like light, I have a little tolerance for shade, and I can withstand short-term low temperature of-15℃. The requirements for soil are not strict, and it is better to use fertile, moist, deep soil layer, well-drained and slightly acidic sandy soil. Strong germination, pruning resistance, and certain resistance to smoke and toxic gases.
Light pruning of plants with few and thick branches can promote more germination of flower branches. If the crown is small, cut short the annual branches to enlarge the crown; If the crown is large, the main branches will retract, and the main branches will be replaced by side branches, which will relieve the tree. If heather grows vigorously, cut off long branches after flowering to promote the growth of leaf buds. In winter, for the purpose of plastic surgery, some dense branches and useless branches are thinned out to maintain the growth space and promote the development of new branches.