Celosia
Silver Celosia ( Celosia argentea )
The genus Celosia ( Celosia ) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Amaranthaceae ( Amaranthaceae ) with 30 to 60 species. Your species occur mainly in tropical regions of Africa and Central and South America ( Neotropics ) ago. The best-known species, the silver - celosia is cultivated and has spread in the tropics and subtropics worldwide.
Name
The botanical name Celosia is derived from the Greek Celeus, which, burning ' means and includes the flower color of the red variety of the silver fire tuft.
Description
It is an annual or perennial herbaceous plants with erect or Climbing stature, often woody at the base. The stalked leaves with mostly lanceolate, oval or triangular shape are changing constantly. They are almost entirely or entirely margins.
The many individual flowers are often terminally always and often axillary spikes or racemes, with fasciated cultivated forms of C. argentea in combing or feathery tufts. The hermaphrodite flowers have three to five thin and mostly hairless bloom. The stamens of the five stamens are basally fused with the calyx. Ovules have three or more available. The stamp is continuous and 0.2 to 4 millimeters long and has two to three head or commended shaped scars. Sometimes two, usually three or more semen arise; they are black and flat.
The chromosome number is n = 9 Some celosia species exhibit pronounced polyploidy, especially the silver celosia occurs tetraploid (4n = 36) and oktoploid ( 8n = 72 ), and C. whitei dodekaploid ( 12n = 108).
Occurrence and use
The main distribution area of Celosia species is the tropical and subtropical Africa and America. There the plants are found along rivers and in open areas, as well as in fields. The distribution to the regions:
- Central America: Celosia chiapensis, digynia Celosia, Celosia dioica, floribunda Celosia, Celosia moquini, Celosia nitida Celosia orcutti, Celosia palmeri, polystachia Celosia, Celosia virgata, Celosia whitei
- South America: Celosia eriantha, Celosia grandifolia, humbertiana Celosia, Celosia longifolia, Celosia major, persicaria Celosia, Celosia salicifolia, Celosia virgata.
- Africa: Celosia anthelminthica, Celosia elegantissima, fadeniorum Celosia, Celosia globosa, Celosia hastata, isertii Celosia, Celosia leptostachya, Celosia linearis, patentiloba Celosia, Celosia schweinfurthiana, Celosia splendens, Celosia trigyna
Only two species are in the Caribbean ( Celosia nitida ), and to find two in Asia ( Celosia taitoensis ). Where the silver Celosia ( Celosia argentea ) is the only species of the genus, which has spread in the tropics worldwide.
The silver - Celosia ( Celosia argentea ) is exclusively grown by gardeners in many varieties, which differ by genetic fasciation considerably in shape and color of its inflorescence. Outside the floristics of the silver celosia and two African species ( Celosia isertii, Celosia trigyna ) cultivated and are used as spice, food and in herbalism use.
Ingredients
Leaves of Celosia species contain about 80-90 percent water, 20-55 mg/100 g of vitamin C, carotenoids and 10-15 mg/100 g 2-6 percent protein. You can on the other hand have 0.2-0.5 percent nitrate and 1-4 percent oxalate.