Winter always seems the longest season of the year.So you want to make it faster over!Sometimes it happens that the snow and cold weather continues, even in March, when it is waiting for the heat and sun.Not only the people but also the whole of nature in a hurry to wake up from hibernation.Even the flowers in a hurry to get out quickly from the ground and reveal their delicate and fragrant buds.This is the period when there are snowdrops.Among the first to wake up these small little white flowers.The name they received because of their first inflorescence visible even from under the snow.This bulbous plant is named Galanthus (Galanthus), in translation - "milk flower" though popularly called snowdrops.It belongs to the family Amaryllidaceae and comes from the forests and meadows of Europe.Depending on the location of its habitat, the period from December to April is the time when there are snowdrops.
There are many types of flowers that still wake up in the snow, and then proudly look out from under it towards the spring and the sun.If someone says that they are all the same, he is mistaken.Each individual is different and kind of not like the others.Some of them have twisted petals, the other - green streaks on the petals, the third is the difference between large flowers.But among them there are some that bloom twice a year - in the spring, when there are snowdrops, and then another, and fall.
There is another interesting feature of these colors - a poisonous bulbs.And they are equally dangerous for both animals and humans.However galanthamine substance contained in snowdrops considered curative.Scientific studies show that the use in medicine of preparations containing it possible to treat some diseases.
walks on this flower a lot of legends.Some believe that it symbolizes hope, innocence and purity, and it looks in the photo snowdrops.It is considered a good sign of their growing in the garden.But there are those who think quite the opposite.For example, in the UK flower equated with death.According to legend, he grew up next to the dead man, who was looking for young lovers.
But whatever it was considered superstitious people, it's just beautiful and delicate flower that blooms in spite of frost and enjoys every warm ray.There is a great tradition tells us that when there are snowdrops.It says that this flower first appeared on earth in the days when it was covered with a layer of ice.
However, it's a fairy tale, but reality is that with freezing tissue in plants die and snowdrops, against the laws of nature, not afraid of frost and the snow is still alive.There are many different versions of their behavior.One of the most relevant are the following: they grow in deciduous forests.In the spring of their light, and leaves with the advent of the soil is in the shade.That's why there Galanthus when the trees are still dormant or dissolved foliage.This is such an amazing, beautiful and delicate flowers snowdrops.Photo shows them as they are unusual.
