Daphne cneorum

Rosemary - daphne ( Daphne cneorum )

The rosemary - daphne or the fluff - Steinröslein ( Daphne cneorum ) is a species of the genus daphne ( Daphne ) and belongs to the family of Seidelbastgewächse.

Other names are fluff daphne, Heath Steinröslein, scented daphne, Heideröschen, Reckhölderle, Tende Rich ( Lower Austria), Gamsveigerl ( Upper Styria ) and Fluhröschen ( Switzerland ) and mountain Naegele ( Bavaria in Kirchheim ), Jungfernmorgenbleam ( Transylvania), Leinstaude, Steinröschen (Schwaben ) and Wieland berries (Graubünden Davos ).

Description

The perennial woody plant grows as a small shrub ( Nanophanerophyt ) and achieved a growth rate of 5 to 30 centimeters. The shoots are hairy fitting gray. The bare deciduous leaves are evergreen, leathery and are 1-2 inches long and 3-5 mm wide. Its shape is oblong to spatulate. The top is dark green, the underside bluish. The leaves are sessile and alternate arranged heaped schopfig at the ends of branches.

The strongly scented carnations grow to several in terminal heads. The perianth is pink; the Perigonröhre is outside hairy tightly. Bloom time is from March to May

The stone fruits are bluish or reddish yellow and begin to mature from August.

Occurrence

The circulation area covers the mountains of central and southern Europe from the Pyrenees to the Balkans and east to the Ukraine. The rosemary - daphne is in Austria scattered to rarely spread from the hill and montane zone in the provinces of Burgenland, Vienna, Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Styria and Carinthia.

The lime-loving plant preferred location pine forests, dry grasslands and rocky corridors. It is commonly used in gardening rock gardens.

Toxicity

The rosemary - daphne is highly toxic by the content of Daphnetoxin.