Pink bay-tree

See also: Bay-tree

The pink bay-tree ( Nerium oleander ) is a shrub of the family of the Apocynacées originating in southern bank of the Mediterranean.

Not to confuse with

Description

It is a shrub of approximately 2m height of which the white, yellow, red flowers or salmon open out July at September.

One often arranges it in the list of the plants known as of orangery (jasmine, bougainvillea, fig tree, citrus…) that one cultivates in veranda except for the regions of the Mediterranean circumference.

The pink Laurier is one of the most dangerous plants of which all the parts are toxic (presence of Hétéroside S cardiotonics). The ingestion of a simple sheet can prove mortal for an adult, because of the often caused cardiac disorders.

Nerium is a shrub with nonrustic flowers, its dark green foliage is lengthened and persistent. The simple or double flowers open out in summer, from June to October.

Characteristics

  • reproductive Bodies:
    • Standard of inflorescence: cyme uniparous helicoid
    • Distribution of the sexes: Standard hermaphrodite
    • of pollination: entomogame
    • Period of flowering: June at September
  • Seed:
    • Standard of fruit: follicule
    • Mode of dissemination: anémochore
  • Habitat and distribution:
    • standard Habitat: shrubby thickets Mediterranean, absorbent, of the mineral grounds
    • Surface of distribution: Mediterranean
given according to: Julve, pH., 1998 FF. - Baseflor. Botanical, ecological and chorologic index of the flora of France. Version: April 23rd, 2004.

Some varieties

to note that the flowers of pink bay-tree can be simple or double (crown of petals).

  • Nerium Oleander Giant of the battles (red double) acronym: GDB

  • Nerium Oleander Professor Granelle (red double)
  • Nerium Oleander Janoch (red simple)
  • Nerium Oleander Italia (red simple)
  • Nerium Oleander Rosario (salmon doubles)
  • Nerium Oleander Tito Poggi (simple salmon)
  • Nerium Oleander Rising sun (simple salmon)
  • Nerium Oleander Mrs Allen (pink double)
  • Nerium Oleander Maurin of the Moors (pink simple)
  • Nerium Oleander Luteum Plenum (yellow double)
  • Nerium Oleander Angelio pucci (yellow simple)
  • Nerium Oleander Mont Blanc (white double)
  • Nerium Oleander Alsace (white simple)
  • Nerium Oleander Splendum Giganteum (pink double) only mixed variety (variegata)
  • Nerium Oleander Small salmon (simple salmon) one of the only dwarf varieties

There exists more than 160 varieties.

Use

In general, the pink bay-trees are planted in hedges of open ground, or in a large pot, with the decoration of a terrace.

Culture

The pink bay-trees are before a a whole Mediterranean plant and imperatively need a sunny and hot situation to thrive, in a ground well drained and enriched with contributions by manure (standard 20-20-20).

Everywhere where there is risk of freezing, the pink bay-trees will have to be planted out of vat, because it will be necessary to return them if the temperatures approach 0°C, because they freeze irremediably with approximately -5°C. They should then be placed at the expenses at 5-10°C, in a rather luminous place, with reduced waterings and not of manure.

The plantation is made October at April. The size must respect the shape of the shrub and consists in folding back half the branches which develop with too much strength. In the event of freezing, but not too hard, one should not hesitate to try to save them, to very strongly fold back the tuft with the short-nap cloth of the ground. Perhaps the shrub will set out again of the foot.

In summer, especially for the bay-trees out of vat, it is necessary to sprinkle copiously and to make contributions of manure regularly to entrenir an abundant flowering. The fall of the sheets announces a lack of manure, which will have however to be only brought in period of growth from March to September.

The pink bay-trees multiply rather easily by taking herbaceous cuttings in March - April, to make marble in water before planting them in a rich and light ground.

Others

In North Africa, at Blessed Snous, the carriers of mask at the time of the seasonal ceremonies take a rod of rose laurel.

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