Meconopsis cambrica
Forest Poppy ( Meconopsis cambrica )
Called The Forest Poppy ( Meconopsis cambrica ), also Cambrian Poppy and Poppy - Pyrenees, is a species of the genus Poppy ( Meconopsis ) in the family of the poppy family ( Papaveraceae ). It is the only species of this genus occurring in Europe. The Welsh party Plaid Cymru uses a stylized flower of the forest bill poppy as a logo.
Description
The forest - Poppy is a deciduous, perennial, herbaceous plant, the plant height of an average of 30 to 50 centimeters reached at favorable locations and up to 75 centimeters. As a storage organ is a strong thickened primary root, botanically known as turnip. The plant carries yellow milky juice. The forest - Poppy forms clumps. The basal leaves and one to three stem leaves are stalked up to 25 inches long, develop a length up to 20 inches and are pinnatisect. In plan, they show a lanceolate shape. The sections are designed obovate. The leaf margin is serrated.
The flowers arise singly from the leaf axils. The flower stems are long and 35 centimeters. The hermaphrodite flower is radial symmetry with a double perianth. The flower diameter is 4 to 8 centimeters. The two bald, green sepals fall after opening of the flower bud rapidly. The four petals have a distinct yellow or orange color. The egg-shaped oval and hairless ovary turns into a significantly short stylus. The four to six radially arranged scars run down at the top of the pen. What is striking is their distinct bulge outward. The flowering period usually extends from June to July, sometimes flowering specimens have been sighted in May, some of us even in the months of August to October.
There shall be smooth capsule fruits. The form represents an elliptical cone. The capsule fruit is not chambered, so has only a fruit tray. At maturity form analogous to the number of carpels at the top of the capsule four to six Valven over which the seed is sown. The seeds are black and are spread across the wind, the plant versamt therefor easily.
Dissemination and locations
The forest - Poppy occurs in the British Isles and Western Europe. In Germany the forest Poppy occurs as " feral ornamental plant " on. Whether its occurrence are to be regarded as naturalized in some areas and if so, since when - in the discussion will be the year 1930 - is not yet fully understood. This includes rare occurrence in northwestern Bavaria, Baden -Württemberg, in the south of North Rhine -Westphalia, in East Hesse and Lower Saxony in the southeast. Fickle, that is relatively fast disappearing again, but newly introduced regularly, the forest - Poppy applies with rare holdings in Southern Bavaria, southern Thuringia, East Saxony and Schleswig -Holstein, also on Helgoland. In Austria, he was spotted in the province of Lower Austria, as well as in Stodertal in Upper Austria and in the urban area Oberndorf in Salzburg. In Switzerland, it occurs in the Jura.
The habitat of the forest bill Mohns damp, shady places and the forest. It grows mostly on stony ground in the mountains. Therefore, it is particularly adapted to colonize gaps and crevices between rocks and stones. In its western distribution area it is increasingly found in more open terrain with low vegetation. Thus, it is possible the plant to colonize the urban environment by growing amid cobbled stone slabs and at the foot of walls.
The forest - Poppy is Begleitart the phytosociological association Nitrophytische Waldsaum companies ( Alli Arion Oberd. ), To the order of the fringe communities Nitrophytischen ( Convolvuletalia sepium R. Tx. ) Within the class of persevering ruderal ( Artemisietea Lohm vulgaris ) belongs.
System
The first description was in 1753 as Papaver cambricum by Carl Linnaeus in his work Species Plantarum. Louis Alexandre Guillaume Viguier introduced in 1814 for this type on the first monotypic genus Meconopsis. A study published by Joachim W. Kadereit, Chris D. Preston and Francisco J. Valtuena 2011 phylogenetic study suggests that this species in the genus poppy ( Papaver ) should be reintegrated.
Use
The forest - Poppy 's culture since 1640. It is used in gardens as an ornamental plant for the sunny to partially shady area term. There it also cultivated forms, including semi-double and double varieties, such as the stuffed variety Meconopsis cambrica ' Plena'. or ' Muriel Brown', a stuffed variety with orange flowers. ' Aurantiaca ' is an orange flowering and ' Flore- pleno ' half -filled yellow-flowered variety.