Cobaea scandens
Glockenrebe ( Cobaea scandens )
The Glockenrebe ( Cobaea scandens, occasionally mis Cobea scandens ), also known as bell winch or windlass claws, a flowering plant in the family of locking herb plants is ( Polemoniaceae ). She comes from Mexico.
Description
The Glockenrebe is a fast-growing, herbaceous perennial climbing plant that is usually grown as an annual plant. Your branched stems are 3-8 m long. The pinnate leaves are composed of two or three pairs together against constant leaflets. The ovoid tapered to narrow lanceolate leaflets are 3-13 cm long, 1-6 cm wide, and have a smooth edge. Sit the branched, reddish tendrils, whose hook form probably led to the name sometimes used claws winds at the ends of the leaflets; they are up to 5 cm long. The stems of the leaflets ( about 1 mm) and Leaflets (5 to 20 mm ) are only briefly. The plant responds to mechanical stimuli. After contact, the tendrils writhe slowly. It has a striking autumn color. Stipules absent.
The flowering period extends from July to October, or until the first frost. The Glockenrebe has hanging, large, blue-violet blossoms that stand for 8 to 30 cm long stems singly in the leaf axils. The bell shape of the flowers of this species gave the name. The hermaphrodite flowers are radial symmetry and fünfzählig. The wide, green calyx is 3 to 3.5 cm long. The corolla is 4 to 6.5 cm long and the Corolla lobe shorter than the corolla tube. Initially, yellow-green is changing the color of the corolla to purple, with a special strain of too beige and white. The scent changed simultaneously from dull - sweet honey-like to. It's just a circle with five fertile stamens present; they are about 20 mm long with about 10 mm long anthers. Three carpels are fused into a superior ovaries. The concise pistil and stamens hang out from the flower. Pollination Biology the Glockenrebe belongs to the " bluebells " within the " Bat Flower " ( Chiropterophilie ).
The conspicuous capsule fruit is 5-9 cm long and contains many winged seeds.
Swell
- Cobaea scandens in the Flora of New South Wales Online. (English )