Description Flower Corydalis can start with the fact that it is one of the perennial plants that have a very short growing season.A representative of the numerous kinds of herbaceous plants of the family Dymyankovye.Sprouting in April even bare wood, in the middle of June Corydalis has not found.More than 200 species are native to the Himalayas and China.The whole area covers a vast temperate latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, and most common, including in our forests, according to three types: thick, hollow and Corydalis Marshall.
General characteristics of species
plant tubers ephemeroids is therefore characterized by a rapid germination, early ripening of fruits and the complete withering away of the aerial parts.The vital supply of nutrients accumulate in the tubers, so the vegetation resumed at the next favorable period of the year.
Now, a general description of the flower.Corydalis is different both in their appearance and their structure.The plant is characterized by low fleshy stem length of 15 to 25 centimeters, and twice or thrice dissected leaves.Rich foliage and inflorescences are located on top of her bright loose tassels.Sepals almost imperceptible.Each individual flower Corydalis base has an elongated shape and is comprised of four smaller beams, the ends of the upper and lower lobe wrapped outwardly slightly.Each flower has one or two small leaves - bracts.In different places you can find yellow, pink, purple, blue, white Corydalis.
Flower Corydalis and varieties of this plant are excellent honey plant, which is accumulated in the spur a lot of sweet nectar.However, it is possible to extract only insects with a long proboscis, such as bumblebees.Mature fruit of the plant - is a dry capsule, shaped like a pod in which seeds are formed.They are rather large, black, with a shiny surface and juicy white prisemennikom - a real treat wood ants that collect seeds and play an important role in the distribution of the species.
So what is so interesting Corydalis?Description of useful properties, the application of this perennial will be discussed further.
Description
Corydalis plants form the lush bush with large leaves, and during flowering bright blossoms like candles, towering over the green blanket.Tubers are rounded, sprawling wide root, which form a kind of age-hole hollow.Every year, young tuber is formed inside the old, which is converted into its shell.
Appearance flower: Corydalis has a short stem with a few bright scaly leaves at the base;dark-green or bluish dissected foliage;brush flowers are located on the tops of most stems;wrong but elegant four-petal flower, elongated.
If you look closely, you will notice that the two fused inner petals protrude slightly forward as the nose, poking between the outer wrapped.Period flowering Corydalis comes at the end of April and beginning of May and mid-June flowers, stem and leaves die completely.
Habitats Corydalis
favorite habitat of this plant are the partial shade of deciduous forest areas that do not have a thick canopy of grass and shrubs.Plants need sunlight, to have time to start and complete a full cycle of vegetation, so the maximum use Corydalis spring, when the grass has not yet risen high, and forest trees are not dissolved their dense green foliage.
Features vegetation
ephemeroid Corydalis tuber (description of the plant, care for so many people interested) rather rapidly.That kind of showy ornamental plant attracts the attention of gardeners.Therefore it is necessary to know the main features of its vegetation: after dispersal of seeds and the withering away of the aerial part only Corydalis tuber, hidden deep in the earth, is alive and waits until next spring;A new life began from a large renewal of the kidney, which is formed on top of the tuber and in March close to the surface of the soil to the first heat immediately give young shoot.
origin of the name
Everyone knows that Corydalis - flower.Description for children as well as adults, is based on associations: the unusual shape of flowers reminiscent crest bird, hence the name of the plant.Similar meaning and national titles, inherent in different nations.
It is considered that the scientific name of the genus comes from the Greek word "koribalos", the title crested lark.As one of the oldest legends spring larks strongly quarreled among themselves and had a big fight.And the birds fought so fiercely that tore each other plumes and spurs that fell on the forest land, beautiful flowers sprouted Corydalis.
Here you have a fantastic Corydalis flower.Description of why so call it, is also in the German culture.There is a plant called the "spur of the lark."There is a legend, and ancient Slavic origin of the name of the flower.According to her, every night the old witch Flied possession riding on a broom, and at dawn return to his forest hut to sleep and relax.But as soon as she should fall asleep, like a rooster cry I met the dawn, giving the old woman to sleep.Then the angry witch turned him into a silent flower Corydalis.Because of this, the people go to the other name of the plant, "males" or "chicken."
Care Corydalis
very taxing for breeding plant Corydalis.Description, breeding, care for showy flowers, consider the examples of those species that grow well in central Russia: a hollow, dymyankolistnaya, Caucasian, Magadan, low angustifolia, Marshall, Bush, Kuznetsova, and others. They are decorated with gardens, flower beds and flower beds.
Forest and Caucasian species, including Corydalis solida, the description of which has much in common, are planted in the shade and partial shade of deciduous trees.Large tubers are usually buried at a depth of 10-15 cm, and smaller - 5-7 centimeters.Corydalis love humus-rich, loose loam (for forest species) and heavy clay (Asian) of the soil.
Asian species prefer well-lit hills, and in the case of raw potatoes in the summer rest period (mid-June) can be dried within a month.
Reproduction Corydalis
Description Flower Corydalis assumes familiarity with the peculiarities of reproduction of this plant.All transplant operations carried out both during the holidays and at the peak of the flowering (stem with a lump of land): in one case, it is perfectly safe, although it is difficult to find the small tubers in the ground, and in another case - convenient, because well visible sprouts.
Corydalis propagated by seeds, although some species, such as Bush and Kashmir, can form a small side-tubers.The seeds do not keep long, so they should sow immediately after harvest.Flowering occurs only at the 3-4th year.
Application Corydalis
Bright multicolored Corydalis look great on Alpine hills, lined with stone, surrounded crocus, tulips, snowdrops, host.They are also an integral part of the colorful compositions of flower beds, lawns, parks and ornamental flower beds.
Due to the high content of alkaloids, plants used in medicine and pharmacology.Preparations based on it relieves muscle tone, have a sedative effect on the nervous system, dilates blood vessels and lowers blood pressure.Yet the greatest interest are different kinds of Corydalis as a decorative garden culture.
