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Scientific name - Nigella damascena L. Synonyms - Nigella coerulea Lam., Nigella pygmaea Pers .. Popular names - damigella scapigliata, fanciullaccia, lampioncini della Madonna, cheveux de Venus, fennel flower, love in a mist, Devil in the bush, Nigella by Damas, Barbas de velho, koijn, habba Souda, sinouj, Damaszener Schwarzkummel, Türkischer Schwarzkummel, tschnuschka damasskaja. Distribution and Habitat - originated in southern Europe, northern Africa and southern Asia. It is cultivated as ornamental plants in North America. Grows on arid soils, dry, up to 800 m altitude. Description - annual species. Stem thin, ribbed, glabra, or geniculara erect, branched toward the top, 20-45 cm high. Leaves alternate, basal leaves linear-lanceolata, 2-3 pinnate-sectors; leavescaulinare they are Sesia; bracteiforme leaves immediately below the flower. Flowers solitary, terminal, calyx 2-3 cm, 5 sepa petaloide, white-blue wavy language; 5.10 petals nectarifere, petal 2 llobi, lower biloba or cipher. Numerous stamens with erect filaments, and anther without appendix. Blooms in May-August. Fruit capsule global nedeta and bacon, green with a purple stripe on the sunny, 5 rags joined by the persistent style 5. Seeds black, triangulation, rough, by crushing leaves a whiff of strawberry, have low-damascenina and contain 0,4-0,5% essential oil, acid taste. Growth rate - slow to moderate. Tolerances - the transplantation, shade, dry soils and the wetlands. Requirements - prefers light soils, sandy, well-drained. Propagation - by seeds sown spring (in March) or soon after maturation (in August). The seeds germinate in 8 --16 days at 12-16 C. ͦ Natural partners and Garden - Anthemis tinctoria, Calendula officinalis, Capparis spinosa, Eschscholzia californica, Gypsophila elegans, Ononis sp., Mesembryanthemum sp.. Cultivars and varieties - Nigella damascena L. var. minor Boiss. - Smaller species, mostly sepalele and blue petals. Properties and Uses - seeds may be used against insects and moths that attack clothes. The seeds have narcotic properties, tonic, aphrodisiac, can be used for toothache and menstrual easy. Essential oils extracted from seeds are used in perfumery and cosmetics. For cut flowers, it is cut before the flower opens in its entirety. Myth, Legend and Folklore - Flower quoted in the Bible. By the seventeenth century was used in Europe, now only folosteste Indian cuisine and medicine. In the past, the seeds were used for seasoning liqueurs, ice cream and bread dough, this tradition in Oriental and Indian cuisine. In one myth about the German imaparatul Frederick I, is said to have died being seduced by a creature like sirens. In the place where he died, is believed to springto germinate a shoot with a delicate flower blue, covered with green hair, Nigella. References Allan M. Armitage - Armitage's Garden Annuals - Timber Press, 2004 Jo Ann Gardner - Herbs in Bloom - Timber Press, 2005 Joan Parry Dutton, Marion Sheehan - Plants of Colonial Williamsburg - Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1979 Johannes Seidemann - World Spice Plants - Springer, 2005 Linda Beutler - Garden to Vase - Growing and Using Your Own Cut Flowers - Timber Press, 2007 Suzanne McIntire - An American Cutting Garden - University of Virginia Press, 2005 WG Goreja - Black Seed - Nature's Miracle Remedy - Amazing Herbs Press, 2003
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