P:Please provide information about the date and method of sowing, about the climate and soil requirements of the ash-leaf dyptam. I have about 100 seeds of this plant and I would like to grow he althy specimens.
O:Horticultural literature states that diphtam seeds should be sown immediately after harvesting, but in practice it turned out that they can be sown at different dates. They are placed in the ground at a depth of about 1 - 2 centimeters.Seedlings usually germinate in the spring of the next year.The seedlings are transferred to their permanent location in the fall or early spring of the following year.Having shortened their roots a bit, they are planted at intervals of 10 - 100 centimeters.
The site should be rich in calcium, fertile, dry and sunny. Some plants bloom in the second and most in the third year of vegetation.It is a long-lived and frost-resistant plant.Dyptam belongs to the rutaceae family. In Poland, it grows wild and belongs to the plants under strict legal protection, i.e. it is not even allowed to collect seeds from them.
This plant contains highly fragrant essential oils that evaporate in hot and windless weather, creating a thick vapor around the plant.At very high temperatures (in the steppes), it sometimes self-ignites and the plant bursts into flames for a few seconds.
Scholars believe that the occurrence of spontaneous fires in Asia may be related to the diphtam occurring there.This property is related to the common name of diphtam - "burning bush of Moses". It should be noted that dyptam is not a shrub but a perennial. Dyptam essential oils also have another, dangerous property. Bare skin contact with them in sunny weather may cause allergies or even cause burns.
