Kastuba, flower with red green leaves

In latin it is called Euphorbia pulcherrima and also called normal Poinsettia pulcherrima, which attract because of its changes in leaf form and color resemble flowers. When it still young, kastuba’s leaves in light red, and become green after getting old. Kastuba’s leaves contain saponin, sulfur, fat, amylodextrin, starch and acid formlat. Therefore, the leaves can be used as a tonic and to treat wounds. Remove the stem sap is also used to heal new wounds. In addition, kastuba can also be used as medicine dysentery, phthisis (TB), wage period, and increase breast milk.

Kastuba can be planted with stek. First, the selected branch of the old with the diameter at least 1 cm. Branch cut along the 15 cm. Each snippet has a 3 - 4 eye shoots. How to cut, should discount sloping field on the distance of 1 cm from the top or lowest grow. Discount stek then soaked in a solution containing ZPT, polybag and then in the media in the land of sand mixed with the comparison 1: 1. Roots will grow around 10-12 sunday, after the new-planted in the pot small pot.

Kastuba need very dark atmosphere to be developed optimally, can range between 12 - 14 hours a day.