디시디아 밀리언하트

디시디아 밀리언하트

Dischidia ruscifolia Decne. ex Becc.

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Common Names include:
ENGLISH: Million Hearts, Million Hearts Vine
CHINESE (中文): 百万心
FRENCH (Français): Plantes aux millions de cœurs

Description: Commonly known as Million Hearts, Dischidia ruscifolia is an evergreen, perennial sprawling or climbing plant with small succulent heart-shaped leaves that face each other on a long arching stem creating “chains of heart”. The tiny white flowers grow in leaf axils (between a leaf and the stem) bloom throughout the year and remain for long periods of time.

Description: Commonly known as Million Hearts, Dischidia ruscifolia is an evergreen, perennial sprawling or climbing plant with small succulent heart-shaped leaves that face each other on a long arching stem creating “chains of heart”. The tiny white flowers grow in leaf axils (between a leaf and the stem) bloom throughout the year and remain for long periods of time.
Derivation of specific name: Latin Ruscus, "Butcher's broom (shrub)" and folium "leaf". Dischidia with Ruscus-like leaves in reference to the apex of the leaf terminating in a stiff point. The Ruscus aculeatus is a shrub of the lily family, a meter high, native to Central and Southern Europe. Its leaves are equipped with similar stiff point leaves.
Stems: Slim, repeatedly branched from near the base, terete, trailing or arching out under the weight of precisely ranked leaves, growing to 1 metre in length before taking root at the tip and continuing, quite tough, green or yellowish green toward the ligneous base, the average ones as thick as a pencil, with latex.
Leaves: Heart-shaped, thick, succulent, and hard, almost like small beads, less than 1 cm long, similarly green on both sides (red on new growth), with pronounced nerves, very numerous, twistingly arranged in between one another, thereby facing the greatest amount of light. If grown under intense light, the plant’s leaves will develop a red tinge.
Flowers: Solitary or in pairs, axillary, upon slender recurved pedicels. Bisexual, actinomorphic, with no great fanfare, or smell. Corolla very small, about 5 mm across, resembling a tiny upturned vase, with 5 pointed petals around the opening, pure white. The petals are held erect at anthesis.

Blooming season: Flowers appear when the plant is still young throughout the year and remain for long periods of time.
Fruits: Lighter green, flattened on the upper surface, gradually pointed.
Note: The genus Dischidia belongs to the milkweed family (Asclepiadaceae) and is closely related to plants in the genus Hoya, another popular group admired for their showy, sometimes fragrant, often waxy flowers.

 

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