Kleshchevina: planting and care of the plant in the middle band

If you see a castor beetle in a strange garden (the photos on which this plant is imprinted show a palm-like appearance) - then it is possible that you will not be able to forget it. And you want to put on your site. It is a powerful, hardy and very decorative plant. If you want to create a subtropical effect in your garden, then castor be very helpful to you. Planting and caring for her is not difficult, and will pay off with interest. It is necessary to consider only some features.

Kleshchevina: planting and care

Three plants are enough for you to create an effective composition on the flowerbed. They grow very fast. They have enough month to reach a height of one and a half meters. Kleshchevinu in Russia is also called a castor tree, or simply "castor oil". This plant comes from Africa - there it is a perennial. During the time of the pharaohs castor oil was used as a component of cosmetic compounds, and also as a poison. In the subtropical part of castor-bean (planting and care of it there is not practiced - this plant in that locality is most often wild) can reach ten meters in height. True, this takes several years. In the middle strip, castor-oil is an annual. Therefore, such a height is unattainable. The plant in question is extremely unpretentious. All that he needs for life is the bright sun and the absence of cold. They can easily be avoided by planting seeds in the soil in late May or early June. All other difficulties - drought, shade, draft - castor beans are not terrible. If possible, fertilize and loosen the soil on your site, moisten it as much as possible. But if you do not have time to care for the soil, this will only affect the splendor and duration of flowering of castor oil. In general, she, even neuhozhennaya, looks good. Large leaves that resemble palm trees do not lose their brightness. And the seeds appear from the ovary almost always.

Reproduction

Collecting spheroidal spiny fruit is the only way that the mentioned plant can be propagated. But the seeds give almost one hundred percent germination - this is the advantage of castor oil. Planting and caring for the seeds obtained at the end of summer are simple and uncomplicated. After removing from the spiny bolls, you need to place them in a cool place for wintering. And in May or at the end of April planted. Meanwhile, how early the seeds will be in the soil, and how high the plant will be, there is a direct link.

Kleshchevina: poisonous or not?

Animals often bypass this plant side. And they do it right, because it contains a powerful poison. It is in the seeds and is called ricin. This is the only dangerous substance that contains castor oil. Planting and caring for her should exclude the possibility of contact of children with the seeds of the plant. This toxin is extremely dangerous and has no antidotes. Despite such a dangerous feature, castor bean is considered a useful plant. Some substances isolated from it are used in the pharmaceutical industry. For this purpose, castor bean is grown in Brazil, India and Ethiopia. Currently, scientists are actively exploring the possibility of using substances contained in castor oil for the treatment of neoplasms.