Syringa komarowii
Leaves and inflorescence of lilac bow ( Syringa komarowii subspecies subsp. Reflexa )
Komarov lilac (Syringa komarowii ) is a large shrub with purple- pink to white flowers from the family Oleaceae ( Oleaceae ). The natural range is located in the north of China. The species is used as an ornamental shrub.
Description
Komarov Lilac is a 1.5 to 6 meters tall shrub with thick, terete and occupied with numerous Korkporen branches, which are initially hairy and verkahlen later. Terminal buds are present. The leaves have a 1 to 3 cm long stem. The leaf blade is simple, 5 to 19 centimeters long and 1.5 to 7 rarely 9 inches wide, ovate - oblong to oblong- lanceolate, acuminate acute to long and wedge base. The upper leaf surface is dark green and glabrous or pubescent along the central nerve, the underside is yellowish hairy gray-green and scattered.
The flowers grow in 4 to 25 centimeters long and 3-13 centimeters measured by nodding or drooping, cylindrical to oblong - ovate, dense or loose panicles. The inflorescence axis is densely hairy to glabrous. The flower stems are from 0 to 1.5 millimeters long and, like the 2-3 mm long calyx densely hairy to glabrous. The corolla 1 to 2.2 centimeters long, outside purple, red or pale purple and white on the inside. The corolla tube is 0.8 to 1.5, rarely 2 inches long and funnel-shaped. The corolla lobes are ovate to ovate -oblong, horizontal or upright. The anthers are yellow and sometimes excellent. When fruits are 1 to 1.5 inches long, formed smooth or studded with Korkporen capsules.
Dissemination
The natural range is in China in the south of Gansu Province, in western Hubei, in the south of Shaanxi, Sichuan and northern Yunnan. Komarov lilac grows in cool moist woods, thickets, along rivers and in ravines in 1000-3400 meters on the weakly acidic to alkaline, humus-rich or sandy- loamy, fertile soil in full sun to light shade locations. The species is usually frost hardy.
System
Komarov lilac (Syringa komarowii ) is a species of the genus lilac (Syringa ) in the family Oleaceae ( Oleaceae ). There she is assigned to the tribe Oleeae. The species was described by Camillo Karl Schneider in 1910 for the first time scientifically. The genus name Syringa was chosen by Linnaeus in 1753, before the name for both the Commons lilac (Syringa vulgaris) and for the European mock orange ( Philadelphus coronary ) was used from about the 16th century. He can probably be derived from the Greek " syrigs ", a wind instrument that can be made from the branches of the shrub pipes. The specific epithet komarowii reminiscent of the Russian botanist Vladimir Komarov Leontyevich.
There are two subspecies:
- Syringa komarowii subsp. komarowii standing with usually more or less dense inflorescences, outside dark-colored, purple, red or purple -red flowers crown and usually more or less erect corolla lobes. The subspecies flowers from May to July and the fruits ripen from July to October. The distribution area is located in thickets, forests and along rivers in 1000-3400 meters above sea level in the south Gansu and Shaanxi, Sichuan and northern Yunnan. It is the hardiness zone 6a associated with mean annual minimum temperatures -23.3 to -20.6 ° C.
- The arch - Lilac (Syringa komarowii subsp. Reflexa (CK Schneider ) PS Green & MC Chang) with pyramidal, often interrupted inflorescences, pale colored, light red or pale purple -colored corolla and usually horizontal standing corolla lobes. The subspecies flowers from May to June and the fruits ripen from July to October. The distribution area is located in ravines in 1800 to 2900 meters in the north-east of Sichuan and Hubei Wasten. The taxon was described in 1910 as a separate species Syringa reflexa by Camillo Karl Schneider and 1995 komarowii assigned as a subspecies Syringa. It is the hardiness zone 4 is associated with mean annual minimum temperatures -34.4 to -28.9 ° C.
Use
Komarov Lilac is rare, the bow lilac ( Syringa komarowii the subspecies subsp. Reflexa ) are often used because of its decorative flowers as an ornamental shrub.