Periploca graeca

Greek treesling ( Periploca graeca )

The Greek treesling ( Periploca graeca ) is a plant of the genus Tree Slings ( Periploca ) of the subfamily Periplocoideae, which is placed in the family of Hundsgiftgewächse.

Features

The Greek treesling is a deciduous, upright shrub or wind, reached the stature heights between 5 and 15 meters. The bark is red-brown, partially frosted and cracked.

The simple leaves are opposite, short-stalked, 4-12 cm long and 2-7 inches wide and ovate to elliptic or lanceolate and entire, pubescent to sparse. The upper end is acute to obtuse, sometimes drawn out to a short tip, the base is wedge-shaped to rounded. The top of the leaves is glossy and dark green, the underside brighter and bluish green. The leaves are slightly wavy and stay until leaf fall in autumn green.

The flowers are fünfzählig, greenish outside and inside schmutzigviolett. Its diameter is 2 to 2.5 inches. They are arranged to 8-15 in terminal or axillary clusters. The calyx is bell-shaped and 3-5 millimeters long. The sepals are much like the Goblet tube. You are outside long haired and white. The petals are 8-14 mm long and 2-3 mm wide and grow together only at the base. They are oblong- lanceolate, obtuse and repulsed at the edge. The top is hairy, especially on the edges of the long white, the underside is bare. The wheel-shaped lobes are spread out during the flowering period. The stamens combines a wreath at the base. You run out in 5 kronblattartige, long pointed scales and form a side tiaras. The stamens are dirty - violet, free and come across an arc above the scar head together. The anthers are hairy on the back, have a short appendages and form, with the head scars a Gynostegium said unit. The four pollen grains are bonded into a single unit ( tetrad ). The fruit is smooth, brown and consists of 2 carpels, which are fused only at the base. Each carpel is 5 to 12 inches long, oblong- cylindrical and opens like a bellows at the ventral suture. The seeds are 8-12 mm long, black - brown, oblong- cylindrical and filled with several longitudinal strips. At the upper end they carry a 25 to 30 millimeters long tuft of white, silky shiny hair.

Bloom time is from July to August.

Occurrence

The Greek treesling comes in the eastern Mediterranean from Italy eastward as the Balkans and eastwards to the Caucasus. It grows in lowland forests, along waterways, forest edges and in bushes. Often they can be found in maquis. They prefer loose, fertile soil in warm, sunny locations.

Documents

• Gunter Steinbach (ed.): shrub shrubs ( Steinbach nature guide ). Mosaik Verlag GmbH, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-576-10560-3.