Dieffenbachia seguine

Dieffenbachia ( Dieffenbachia seguine )

The Dieffenbachia ( Dieffenbachia seguine, Syn: Caladium seguinum etc. ), very rarely also called Giftaron, Schweigrohr, is a species of plant of the genus Dieffenbachia ( Dieffenbachia ) in the family of Araceae ( Araceae ). It is in tropical South America, especially Brazil home. Your grades are easy to maintain house plants or ornamentals for tropical parks and gardens.

Description

The Dieffenbachia is a robust, evergreen, perennial, herbaceous plant, the plant height up to 3 meters and plant diameter reaches up to 60 centimeters. It forms stalked, 35-45 cm wide leaves with broadly ovate to oblong or lanceolate, glossy dark green leaf blades have white or yellow depending on the variety patterns.

Care as an ornamental plant

The plant requires a lot of heat ( 18 to 23 degrees Celsius). Outside of drafts and direct sunlight, the light- loving plant is very water needy. When repotting all 1-2 years, provides a soil mixture of leaf mold, peat and sand in the ratio 2:2:1 at.

Ingredients

Plant extracts are used in South and Central America as an insecticide, as rat and cockroach poison.

The German trivial name indicate the practiced in the 17th century practice of using torture as a means, plant parts had to be chewed, resulting in the swelling of the mucous membranes and the tongue and prevented from speaking for a day.

When administered in smaller doses, the plant parts have persistent or temporary result in infertility in both male and female animals and humans. Researched and used this method was in Nazi Germany and in other countries. The goal was in Germany the enforcement of " racial purity " by drug treatment. It should be " genetically impure " replace the previously commonly used in surgical procedures, which had also result in infertility. From conducting then physicians who testified during the Nuremberg trials, experiments were referred to as " unsuccessful " in humans.