Edelweiss-Leontopodium Flower

Edelweiss-Leontopodium Flower

Edelweiss flower is the National Flower of Switzerland. The scientific name of the flower is Leontopodium and commonly known as Edelweiss. Leontopodium is meant the lion’s paw. One of the best flower in the European mountain flower. Edelweiss blooms season is annually June, July, August, and September month. The flowers are one of the reasons for Switzerland’s beauty.

The Edelweiss flower is native to Albania, Austria, Bosnia, France, Italy, Poland, Croatia, Bulgaria, Herzegovina, Germany, Serbia, Montenegro, Romania, Spain, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, and Switzerland.

The plants prefer rocky limestone places at about 1500-3400m elevation. The flower is belonging to the sunflower and Dairy family. Leontopodium is a genus of herbaceous perennials with clusters of small flowers. It is non-toxic and has been used in traditional medicine or folk medicine as a remedy against abdominal and respiratory diseases.

The plant's leaves and flowers are covered with white hairs. The dense hair appears to be an adaptation to high altitudes, protecting the plant from cold, aridity, and ultraviolet radiation. Flowering stalks of Edelweiss can grow to a size of 3–20 centimeters in the wild or up to 40 cm in cultivation. Each bloom consists of five to six small yellow clustered spikelet florets surrounded by fuzzy white petals in a double-star formation.

The flower's common name derives from the German word Edelweiss. In Romania, it's known as Flore de colt. In the Italian speaks the Alps the flower. In the French Alps is called as Star of the Alps.

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Rare Species Drosera Peltata

Drosera Peltata

Drosera Peltata is commonly called as shield sundew or pale sundew, Paamgaa, Jhingejaalo, Kitas, and Maakhaa Maarne Jhaar. Drosera Peltata is climbing or scrambling perennial tuberous species in the carnivorous plant genus Drosera. Among the tuberous sundews, Drosera Peltata has the largest distribution, which includes eastern, and Western Australia, New Zealand, India, and most of Southeast Asia.

Drosera peltata is a perennial tuberous herb. Its underground tuber is generally found 4 – 6 cm under the soil surface and its aerial parts range from 5 – 50 cm in height, with wide differentiation into several forms. The subspecies Drosera Peltata subspecies Auriculata is often the most robust reaching up to 50 cm in height, whereas the form known informally as D. foliosa tends to be the shortest, often only 5–10 cm. Drosera Peltata generally has an evident rosette of leaves at the soil surface, which is most pronounced in Drosera Foliosa and in contrast often reduced to scales in mature plants of Drosera Peltata subspecies Auriculata.

   

The aerial stem is simple or slightly branched in the nominal form of Drosera Peltata as well as in Drosera Peltata subspecies Auriculata, and the form informally known as Drosera Gracilis. Flowers are variable in color, but generally white or light pink. The color of the plants is also highly variable, with Drosera Foliosa generally bright grass green even when growing in direct sunlight Drosera Peltata subspecies Auriculata in variable amounts of red, and Drosera Gracilis always orange or dark red color.

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Rare Species-Ceropegia Mahabalei

Rare Species-Ceropegia Mahabalei

Ceropegia Mahabalei Hemadri & Ansari is an accepted name of the plant species. The species botanical name is Ceropegia Mahabelei and the common name is Ralegoan Ceropegia, but a local name of plant species is Gauti Kharpudi (in Marathi). The plant species are in the genus Ceropegia from Apocynaceae family and Asclepiadaceae subfamily (milkweed family). This species is discovering by Indian Forester in 2012.

 The species are a herbaceous plant known from three locations of The Western Ghats of India as Pune, Satara and Thane District of Maharashtra.  It is found on open hills among grasses at high altitude of 975 meters. This communication records a new location of this species from Nasik District which is the northeasternmost record for this species.  The small existing population in this new location is threatened by cattle grazing, and trampling by tourists. Ceropegia Mahabalei is an upright growing perennial; the stems grow from a subterranean tuber. The very narrow leaves are about 10 cm in length but only 5 mm wide. The flowers are 5.5-10 cm in length. The upper part of the flower is light green. The flower-tube is mottled yellowish brown, and the United petals are dark green. The inside of the flower is crimson. Ceropegia Mahabalei is endemic to The Western Ghats of India.

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Epipogium Roseum Orchid

Epipogium Roseum Orchid

This is a very delicate, beautifully colored terrestrial orchid. It is saprophytic in nature and grows on the forest floor on decaying leaf litter. It is unique by not having any leaves at all. It grows in semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests. The flowering season starts in winter and flowers are seen till January. It is very difficult to locate on the forest floor.

Rosy Ghost Epipogium is a medium in size. A plant is grown in hot to cool place or a plant is warm growing. The plant is erect, leafless, terrestrial orchid with an ovoid, horizontal tuber giving rise to an erect. The height of the plant is 2 feet and hollow, fleshy stem. The stem is basally brownish and becoming nearly white towards the top and carrying a few distant bracts. The plant blooms on an erect, up to 80 cm long, many flowered inflorescences arising in the spring and summer. The plant blooms only for 8 days.

Flowers are pure white cupped and looking towards the downward direction. The flowers are about 1 cm long. The sepals and petals are elongate and look similar to each other. The lip is broader and a little frilled, but remains mostly cupped and inconspicuous. It has a few rosy speckles on it. The flower stem and the ovaries of the flower have a slight yellow-brown color, but the overall impression is of a totally white plant. Pods form rapidly after the flowers have opened. Being a saprophytic plant it bears no leaves and has no noticeable green color. Rose Epipogium is found in Africa, Himalayas, Nepal, Bhutan, South India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, SE Asia, Japan, Taiwan, and Australia.

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Rare Species-Seamum Mulayanum Nair

Seamum Mulayanum

A survey of seamum mulayanum in 15 localities near Kolhapur, Maharashtra, revealed complete resistance to phyllody and wilt. Further screening under artificial conditions revealed resistance to phyllody and powdery mildew, but moderate susceptibility to wilt, while the cultivated species S. indicum was completely susceptible to powdery mildew. S. prostratum was resistant to all three diseases.

Morphologically, S.mulayanum  is very similar to S. indicum, except for flower, seed, and capsule dehiscence characteristics. Its seeds contain 28.3% oil.

 

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Sunflower

Sunflower

Sunflower is a genus of plants comprising about 70 species. Whose round flower heads in combination with the ligules look like the Sun. Sunflowers are usually tall annual or perennial plants that in some species can grow to 300cm or more in height?

They bear one or more wide, terminal capital, with bright yellow ray florets at the outside and yellow or maroon disc florets inside. During growth, sunflowers tilt during the day to face the sun but stop once they begin blooming. This tracking of the sun in young sunflower heads is called heliotropism. By the time they are mature, sunflowers generally face east.

 The rough and hairy stem is branched in the upper part in wild plants but is usually no branch in domesticated cultivars. The petiolate leaves are dentate and often sticky. The lower leaves are opposite, ovate, or often heart-shaped.

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Rare Species-Aquilegia Canadensis

Aquilegia Canadensis

Aquilegia Canadensis is native to Missouri, Quebec to Manitoba south to Texas and Florida. Specific epithet means of Canada or also of north-eastern America. Aquilegia Canadensis is spring wildflower found in rocky woods, slopes, ledges, cliffs.

The flowers are like dropping the bell. The color of the flower is red, pink, green, and yellow. The soft pastel color brings light to the semi-shade garden and combines beautifully with other early and mid-spring plant. The plant grows easily in full sun to part shade. Keep soils uniformly moist after bloom to prevent the foliage from dying back. If foliage deteriorates, cut plants to the ground. Fresh new foliage will emerge and look good all season. Collect dried seed pods and sow them where you want more plants or simply let the plants self-sow.

It is a flowering growing to 2.5-3 feet tall with thinly hairy stems branched. The leaves of the plant each leaf has three groups of three leaflets. The flowers are only in the summer season. It is easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. A wide range of soil tolerance as long as drainage is good. The plant prefers rich, moist soils in light to moderate shade. This species has very good resistance to leaf miner which often causes severe damage to the foliage of many other columbine species and hybrids.

The flowers quite attract butterflies, bumblebees, and hummingbirds. The Flowers for an extended period beginning in early spring Thrives in sun or shade; will self sow and naturalize Buntings and finches relish the seed. Aquilegia Canadensis is used in herbal remedies for ailments such as a headache, sore throat, fever, a rash caused by poison ivy, stomatitis, kidney, and urinary problem and heart problem. Native American men also rubbed crushed seeds on their hands as a love charm.

Freely self-seeds and will naturalize to form large colonies in optimum growing conditions. Remove flowering stems after bloom to encourage additional bloom. Keep soils uniformly moist after bloom to prolong attractive foliage appearance. When foliage depreciates, plants may be cut to the ground.

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Malaxis Versicolor Orchid

Malaxis Versicolor Orchid

The botanical name of the orchid is Malaxis veriscolor orchid and common name of the orchid is colorful Malaxis. The orchids are from orchidaceous orchid family. The orchid is also known as Microstylis Versicolor, Seidenfia Versicolor, Liparis prichilus, Reheedei Versicolor, Reheedii Versicolor.

It is a ground Orchid. These plants are native of the Western Ghats as well as Assam in Eastern India, and in Sri Lanka at elevations of 1200-2600 meters as a small size.

Colorful Malaxis is a terrestrial orchid with the short stem, pseudo bulb ovoid. Leaves are 2 rarely 3-5stlkles. Growing of the orchid is in cool to the cold place. Flowers are borne in densely flowered raceme atop the leafless stem. Bracts are lance-shaped, deflexed. Flowers are small, yellow or purple colored. Lip is short wedge-shaped or kidney-shaped, with comb-like teeth.

These plants are blooms in the summer season on a terminal erect 20-35cm long. The flower size is 4mm. These plants specifically grow in dense shadow, Wet soil, and moisturized rocks. The color of the stem is purple light and the color of the flower is yellowish green, light reddish.

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Geodorum Densiflorum Orchid

Geodorum Densiflorum  Orchid

Geodorum densiflorum orchid is commonly known as pink Nodding swamp orchid. Nodding swamp orchid is a plant in orchid family, is a medium to small, and found from India to Southeast Asia to Australia and some Pacific Islands. It is growing in moist grasslands, heathlands, sandy areas behind beaches, woodland, swamps, open forest, well-drained soil, monsoonal thickets, and rainforests as well as dry lowland forests at elevations up to 1000m.

Geodorum densiflorum orchids are a leafy, terrestrial herb with crowded pseudobulbs 30-50mm long and 20-30mm wide. Nodding swamp orchid is having 1-2 dark yellowish pleated leaves on a stem. Leaves are 250-350mm long and 60-80mm wide with a stalk 2-8cm long.

The flowers are not widely opening. Sepals and lateral petal are 11-18mm long and 2.5-5mm wide. The color of the flower is white to deep pink. The flowers are slight turns toward the ground. The flower blossoms between June-July in Asia and December-February in Australia.

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Peristylus Goodyeroides Orchid

Peristylus Goodyeroides Orchid

Orchids in the genus Peristylus are found in Japan, China, Magnolia, India, Indonesia, Indochina, Philippines, Malaysia, Guinea, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, Borneo, Laos, Moluccas, Sulawesi, Sumatra, and Polynesia along streams in Hill Forest and at elevations around 100-2840m. 

Peristylus are more species orchids like Densis, Laobii, Lantajeanis, Recharrdiyanus, Sahanii, and stocksii. Orchids in the Peristylus are terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, sympodial herbs with paired fleshy tubers and thread-like, unbranched roots. The stems are upright and no branches on a stem. The leaves are arranged in the rosette at the base of the plant or near the center of the stem.

The flower of this orchid is small in size. The flowers are resupinate usually small, often crowded, white, green or yellowish and usually only last a few days. The dorsal sepal and petals overlap to form a hood over the column. The labellum has a spur and usually their lobes which may be short or long and threadlike.

Peristylus Goodyeroides Orchid is found around dark forest area. The Orchids are 30-80 cm long in oval tubers oblong-oval leaves 4-5 cm long. Peristylus goodyeroides orchid has 5-6 leaves on a stem of the middle part.

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