Hypericum androsaemum
Blood - wort ( Hypericum androsaemum )
The blood - wort ( Hypericum androsaemum ) or blood man is a species of the genus of locust herbs ( Hypericum ) in the family of St. John's wort plants ( Hypericaceae ).
Description
The blood - John's Wort is an evergreen shrub bald from 30 to 80 ( 100) cm plant height. His crawling to upright stems is densely branched. There are two narrow longitudinal strips on the loosely branched, erect to spreading branches.
The simple, seated, against constantly arranged leaves are 3-10 cm long and 1.5 to 6 cm wide. Their shape is narrow to broad - ovate, at the upper end they are dull to some, the real drawback usually heart-shaped. Furthermore, they are leathery and often include the stem, their upper surface is dark green, the underside contrast, blue-green, they are entire, dotted and translucent due to oil glands.
The bright yellow flowers measure about 15 to 30 mm in diameter. You are fünfzählig, long-stalked and sit individually or in small groups in the axils of bracts lanceolate, where together they form terminal umbels bill.
The unequal sepals are 5 to 15 mm long and 3-6 mm wide. They are ovate, the upper end is acute to obtuse. Your outside is sparsely covered with glandular hairs and does not fall off, at the ripe fruits she is repulsed.
The petals are 6 to 11 mm long and 4-6 mm wide. Their shape is obovate, at the upper end they are dull to some. Petals are falling.
The numerous stamens are arranged in five groups which are united at the base. Stand out from the crown.
6 to 10 mm long, bare fruit is spherical to fusiform. She is a red-brown at first, but later gloss black, fleshy berry. The oval to cylindrical seeds are about 1 mm long and longitudinally striped by pit -like depressions.
Bloom time is from June to August.
Distribution, habitat requirements, socialization
The blood - John's Wort grows in open woods and in shady thickets. Specific requirements for soil are not provided, but the species is mainly found in shady areas of lowland and hilly region.
The distribution area extends from western and southern Europe to Asia Minor. The blood of St. John's wort is found from Portugal in the west to Turkey in the east. To the north it comes in the Atlantic climate prior to Ireland, Germany and the Netherlands lacks the Art
Folk medicine
From the leaves of the plant earlier ointments were prepared.
Pictures
Flower
Red - brown fruits
Black fruits
Documents
- Gunter Steinbach (ed.): shrub shrubs ( Steinbach nature guide ). Mosaik Verlag GmbH, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-576-10560-3.