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Scientific name - Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moensch Synonyms -- Popular names - American coneflower, purple coneflower, Rudbeckia Rouge, Roter Sonnenhut. Distribution and Habitat - originating in North America. Description - herbaceous perennial, rhizome cylindrical. Reddish stem, 80-100 cm tall, slightly pubescent-hirsuta, branched. Leaves alternate, petiolare, lanceolata-ovata, margine evening, slightly pubescent; to the top of the stem leaves are Sesi. Flowers hermaphrodite, involucre nested, bracts linear-lanceolata lanceolata to, ligula pink-purple flowers, 8 inches long, reflexes, needle on top, 6 mm long, tubular flowers, dark red to purple-brown. Dolls bed. Receptacle conical. Blooms in May-October. Fruit achenes. Pollination made by insects (butterflies). Growth rate - Tolerances - poor soils and short periods of drought. Requirements - grows on any soil but prefers well-drained soils, clay-sandy, sunny exhibitions. Management - Past flowers are clipped to encourage flourishing in November. If the seeds when the flowers are sought leave to seed maturation. Propagation - by seeds, sown at 50-70 cm apart and 6 mm depth, before sowing the seeds stratify, germinate in 14-21 days on 21-23 ͦ C. By parting bushes in spring or autumn. Plants propagated varieties will inflorii after a year and multiply by splitting the clumps can inflorii even next summer. Diseases and pests - slugs. Natural partners and Garden - Achillea sp., Delphinium sp., Echinops sp., Geranium sp., Phlox sp., Solidago sp. Cultivars and varieties -- Properties and Uses - Echinacea has been used for centuries as a medicinal plant, but recently was promoted and that Immunostimulators. Echinacea preparations are used in chronic diseases of the respiratory and lower urinary tract, and externally to treat wounds and chronic ulceration. Both preparations for internal use and those for external use on the basis of echinacea not be used more7-8 days. Other species used are Echinacea Echinacea pallida (antioxidant more powerful than Echinacea purpurea) and Echinacea angustifolia. A combination of Echinacea, Baptisia and Thuja is a sure way against cold symptoms. Based products Echinacea purpurea and Glycyrrhiza glabra immunostimulator have potential. It is recommended to allergy sufferers, diabetics or with serious chronic diseases. Myth, Legend and Folklore - American Indians found that the roots of Echinacea have medicinal properties. In traditional medicine, is used as a blood purifier, rheumatism, infections, snake bites, tumri, syphilis, eczema and hemorrhoids. References Claire Kowalchik, William H. Hylton - Roda's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Herbs - Roda Books, 1998 Eric Chivian, Aaron Bernstein - Sustaining Life - Oxford University Press, 2008 Jack Ritchason - The Little Herb Encyclopedia - Woodland Publishing, 1995 Michael Castleman - The New Healing Herbs - Roda Books, 2001 Ovid Bujor - Guide to Medicinal and Aromatic Plants A to Z - Fiat Lux, 2003 Ruth Trickey - Women Hormones and the Menstrual Cycle - Allen & Unwin, 2004 Steve Taylor - Advances in Food and Nutrition Research - Academic Press, 2003
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Cichorium intybus - Chicory
Herbaceous biennial or perennial. Stem erect, with branches hispida, geniculate .30 to 120 cm tall. Roots spindle, long on break leaving a bitter white latex. Basal leaves in rosette, petiolate, lamina oblong-lanceolata, lirat-pinatifide or toothed, 30 x 12 cm. The leaves are caulinare Sesi, alternate, oblong-lanceolata. Gymnadenia conopsea
Gymnadenia conopsea - can be planted in parks and public gardens, on lawns or grassy rocks. Gymnadenia conopsea - Gymnadenia genus name comes from the Greek words 'gymnos' = empty and 'Aden' = gland. Solidago caesia - blue-stemmed goldenrod
Solidago box to - perennial species, native to North America, grows naturally in dry soils on roadsides. Ranunculus asiaticus
Perennial herbaceous, stem 7-40 cm high. Caulinare different from the basal leaves, the basal are lobate, and those are areas caulinare. Flower 3-5 cm diameter, white, yellow or red; 3.5 sepa obsolete; 5 or more petals, stamens numerous. Fruit achenes, top acuminata recurbat, 4,5-5,6 x 3,0-3,7 mm, brown doll. 2n = 16. Anchusa italica Retz. - Ox tongue, large miruta
Anchusa italica species is a perennial or biennial, erect stem, up to 150 cm high, much branched, rarely simple, hispida. Originally from the Mediterranean. Magnoliopsida
Silene diclinis
Herbaceous perennial calcifuga, dioica, 30 cm high, caespitosa, densely pubescent. Prostrata strain or upward. Leaves acute seriacee with obvious central rib, lower leaves 9 x 1.5 cm subspatulate to oblong-lanceolata, ribbed, those of the middle stem is elliptical to oblong-lanceolata, united at the base. Acca sellowiana
Acca sellowiana is a slow-growing, evergreen shrub, a native of South America, is now widely grown in the tropics and warm climates as an ornamental, and for its fruit. In late spring it produces quantities of flowers with proeminent red stamens and pinky-white edible petals. After flowering, the foliage can be hard pruned into any shape. Ostrya carpinifolia
Ostrya carpinifolia - used as an ornamental species for gardens, parks and green street. Ostrya is derived from Greek 'Ostrya', referring to the shape of bracts that protect the fruit. The new species of Chirita (Gesneriaceae) from Yunnan, China
Genus Chirita (Gesneriaceae) comprises 110 species distributed in southern China and Vietnam. Buxus sempervirens
Buxus sempervirens - evergreen shrub, native of northern Africa, Asia and Europe, up to 800 m altitude. Increases in rare deciduous forests on limestone substrates in sunny exhibition, in association with integerrimus Cotoneaster, Pyrus pyraster, Prunus spinosa and Amelanchier rotundifolia. |
 
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