Anemone hupehensis
Autumn Anemone (Anemone hupehensis )
The Autumn Anemone (Anemone hupehensis ) is a plant of the family Ranunculaceae ( Ranunculaceae ). It is used in the moderate areas as an ornamental plant in parks and gardens or as a cut flower.
Description
The Autumn Anemone grows as a perennial herbaceous plant. As outlasting it forms branched erect, woody, short tubers with a length of 8 to 12 cm and a diameter of 0.5 to 0.7 cm. At each plant three to five intense hairy leaves are formed. The petioles are 5-35 cm long. The leaf blade is pinnate in three parts. The egg-shaped leaflets are stalked each 2-5 cm long, the average is 4-10 cm long and 3-10 cm wide, the lateral smaller.
The slightly hairy inflorescence stem usually reaches a height of 30 to 100, rarely to 120 cm. Zymöse the inflorescence has two or three branches, containing three high sheets and many flowers. The foliage leaf-like bracts are stalked 2 to 3 cm long, and three-piece and 3 to 7 inches tall. The hairy flower stems are 3-10 cm long and the side stand on small paired bracts. The hermaphrodite flowers are radial symmetry. The natural forms and easy flowering cultivars five bracts are present in double flowered varieties it can be up to twenty; they are white to pink and purple to red, obovate, 2-3 cm long and 1.3 to 2 cm wide. The many stamens are 4-6 mm long with thin filaments. The more than 180 free carpels are about 1.5 mm long. The straight stylus is short. The flowering period extends approximately July to October.
The ovoid achene is about 2 mm long and 1 mm wide; it is woolly hairy with 3-4 mm long hairs.
Occurrence
Anemone hupehensis var hupehensis naturally grows in thickets, grassy slopes and river banks in hilly areas at altitudes 400-2600 meters in Taiwan and the Chinese provinces of northern Guangdong, northern Guangxi, Guizhou, western Hubei, Jiangxi, southern Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan and eastern Zhejiang ( Tiantai Shan). Many species are cultivated as ornamental plants and tend to naturalizing.
System
The first description under the name Anemone japonica var hupehensis was made in 1908 by Victor Lemoine in V. Lemoine & Fils Catalogue et prix courant, 170, 42, but in 1910 the same author published in V. Lemoine & Fils Catalogue et prix courant, 176, 40 the currently valid botanical name Anemone hupehensis.
Valid are currently two varieties:
- Anemone hupehensis ( Lemoine) Lemoine hupehensis: It is native to Taiwan and China.
- Anemone hupehensis var japonica ( Thunb. ) Bowles & Stearn: It is native to Japan and China. The Chinese presence could, even before the discovery of this variety by Europeans, his feral ornamentals.
There are many forms of culture that are often referred to as Anemone hupehensis, but they are better known as Anemone hybrids, because there are probably also involved in other types of their breeding.
Care as an ornamental plant
The site can sunny, semi-shade to be shady. Humus -rich, fresh soil is recommended. In good location they tend to naturalizing.
It increased in spring by division ( separation of the foothills ) or by root cuttings in late autumn. Older plants can be transplanted bad because of the taproot.
Propagation from seed is not common, but possible. The small seeds are employed on damp earth and leaves it through the winter rest ( Kaltkeimer ). However, the seedlings appear until the following spring.
Swell
- Wang Wencai, Svetlana N. Ziman & Bryan E. Dutton: Anemone in the Flora of China, Volume 6, page 317: Anemone hupehensis - Online. (Sections Description, occurrence and systematics. )
- Cheers Gordon (ed.): Botanica: The ABC's of plants. 10,000 species in text and image. Könemann Publishing Company, 2003, ISBN 3-8331-1600-5. Anemone hupehensis on page 92-93. ( Maintenance section )