Pansy

Garden pansy ( Viola wittrockiana )

The garden pansy ( Viola wittrockiana ) are flowering plants of the genus violets ( Viola ) in the family of Violet Family ( Violaceae ). They have emerged as forms of culture from numerous crosses between species of the genus and reading.

Description

Garden Pansies are typically two year old plants that are only green in the first year and bloom and pass away in the second year. But with timely sowing ( to July) they bloom in the first year already abundant. You can also grow as perennial plants under favorable conditions, but after two years of not more horticultural interest, since they are somewhat informally to unsightly after a few years of growth. This plant is up to 20 cm. The flowering period is from April to October. The flowers are 4-6 cm tall. There are five petals present.

Proliferation and shapes

Garden Pansies are sown (in winter for a spring and summer bloom or in the summer for the fall and spring bloom ).

Today there is a wide range of cultivated forms, which include not only all the colors, but also different forms and shades. Several flower colors on a flower or plant are not uncommon, though the color selection at home-grown plants is much larger than in the ( lower ) choice on the market. Also, the characteristic black eye was now being bred in many varieties again.

System

The Swedish botanist Veit Brecher Wittrock described the plant in 1896, gave her but no species name because it was a bastard form of crosses. The first description under the name Viola wittrockiana by the Austrian botanist Helmut Gams was published in 1925. Because of the content, these shortcomings presented but is not a valid first description; it lacked a scientifically correct documentation. This was made ​​up in 2007 by biologist John D. Nauenburg from the Botanical Garden of the University of Rostock in collaboration with my colleague Karl Peter Buttler from Frankfurt and published in the journal Kochia. Now the pansy is properly called Viola wittrockiana Gams ex Nauenburg & Buttler. The garden pansies are hybrids involving the species Viola altaica, Viola lutea and Viola tricolor.