Qilixiang is a positive plant, so it should be placed in a sunny and ventilated place to make its leaves flourish. If it is maintained at home, it can be moved to the window sill when it blooms, and it still needs to be placed in a sunny place after it fades. In semi-shady places, the growth will be poor, and the fragrance of flowers will be very weak. If it is too shady, the branches will be soft, the leaves will be light, and there will be few or no flowers. It should also be placed in a sunny place in winter.

The optimum growth temperature of Qilixiang is 20℃~32℃, and it is not cold-tolerant. When the lowest temperature drops to about 5℃ in winter, it should be moved indoors at 5℃~ 10℃. If the room temperature is too low, it is easy to shed leaves, which will affect the growth of the next year. It will freeze to death below 0℃.

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Appearance characteristics of Qilixiang

Small trees, up to 12m, with white-gray or yellow-gray trunks and branchlets, slightly shiny, green branches in the current year, obtuse triangle in cross section and nearly arc at the bottom. In seedling stage, the leaves are single leaf, followed by single leaf and two leaves, and there are 3~5 leaflets and 7 sparse leaflets in growing stage.

Leaflets are dark green, glossy, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 3~9cm long and 1.5~4cm wide, with narrow and sharp top, sparse and short tip, short tip at base, symmetrical on both sides or inclined on one side, full and wavy edges, and 4~8 lateral veins on each side; The petiole length is less than 1 cm.

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