Minggu, 27 Juni 2010

The fireweed (Chamerion angustifolium, basioniem: Epilobium angustifolium) is a perennial, 0.6 to 1.5 m tall plant of the primrose family (Onagraceae). The Dutch name fireweed is derived from the resemblance of the leaves of the willow. The species name means smalbladig angustifolium.

The flowers are 2 to 3.5 cm long line symmetric but not symmetric point. The four petals are arranged in two pairs: one pair of upper and a lower pair. The upper petals are slightly larger than the bottom two, making the petals somewhat resemble the wings of a butterfly. The narrow, lower sepal striking cross between the two lower petals down. Sepals red to dark purple. The stems are erect, densely leafy, not branched. The flowers are as big a spike along the stem arranged. The flowers appear on stalks to stand, but this stems form the ovary. The flowering period is from June to August. The 4-16 cm long, mostly erect leaves are oblong, blue-green on the bottom.

The lint-shaped seeds are easily dispersed by the wind. The plant spreads easily through the large seed production ruderale, slightly sandy, but fertile land in forests and heaths. After a forest fire is one of the first plants that comes to mind, what triggered the English name fire weed. It is found in nearly all of Europe and Asia from Spain to Iceland. Only in Portugal there is the species. The plant is not African, but Greenland and northwestern North America.

The plant is host to the mosquitoes of the genus Rhabdophaga, gall midges and the Butterfly (Deilephila elpenor).

Young leaves and young shoots as a vegetable or soup can be used. Make the vegetables when used as ready as asparagus shoots. Once the leaves were also used for pulling tea. Let the leaves than in sun-drying.

The species is the official plant of the Yukon territory in Canada and the Norwegian Hedmark county.



Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilgeroosje


See also: Sending Flowers, Online Florist

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