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The Kalkwalstro Perennial Plant
Kalkwalstro (Galium pumilum Murray) is a perennial plant, which belongs to the sterbladigenfamilie (Rubiaceae). The species is on the Dutch Red List of plants as very rare and moderately decreased. The plant is native to western and central Europe.
The plant is 15-30 cm high and has a long standing off the bottom of haired, erect or ascending stems. The star-shaped arrangement of the leaves, like spokes around a wheel, consists of two leaves, the others are stipules but a similar form and function. The leaves of non-flowering stems are not very crowded. The leaf tip is mucronate.
Kalkwalstro blooms in June and July with white, 3-4 mm large flowers.
The 1 mm diameter fruit is a two-part split fruit is smooth or covered with blunt warts.
The plant is found in limestone grasslands.
Names in other languages:
• German: Trift-Labkraut, Heide-Labkraut, Zierliches Labkraut
• English: Slender Bedstraw
• Franco: GAILLET and ombelle, GAILLET rude
Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalkwalstro
See also: Sending Flowers, Online Florist
The Small Geranium Plant
The small geranium (Geranium pusillum) is an annual plant, which belongs to the Geranium (Geraniaceae). The small geranium resembles the soft geranium (Geranium molle). The small geranium has only short hairs, the stamps are in yellow and the hairy part fruits have no fine transverse ridges, while the soft geranium also long hair between the short hairs have the stamps in purple and share fruits hairless with fine transverse ridges .
The plant is 5-40 cm high and has a taproot. The stem, petiole and flower stalk are occupied only with short hair. The magazine is handgelobd.
The small geranium blooms from May to autumn, with pale blue-purple, rarely reddish, 2-5 mm long flowers. The petals are heart shaped. The stamps are in yellow.
The fruit is a five-part safe fruit. The fruits are hairy part and have no transverse ridges. The sepals enclose the fruit not participate.
The plant is found on open, moist, rich soil.
Names in other languages:
German: Kleiner Storch Schnabel
English: Small-flowered Crane’s-bill
French: Geranium fluet
Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleine_ooievaarsbek
See also: International Flower Delivery, Florist
The Broad Orchid
The broad-orchid (Dactylorhiza majalis subsp. Majalis) is an orchid, a subspecies of Dactylorhiza majalis.
It is a 15-30 cm high, perennial plant. The flowers are bilaterally symmetrical. The plant blooms from late May until early July, with dark purple flowers. The lower flower that slip downward, also called crown slip, has frequently a large midlobe. Zijslippen the point up. Inflorescence a spike of up to 15 cm.
The leaf is lanceolate and three to four times as long as wide. It is usually some form of wider than that of reed orchid (Dactylorhiza majalis subsp. Praetermissa). The magazine can be spotted and unspotted are.
The wide spreads via orchid seeds fine dust. To survive as they plant is dependent on a mutualistic symbiosis with a soil fungus.
It grows at not too fertile, wet soil with an alkaline effect of either the groundwater or the soil itself. He appears in many different habitats of marshy meadows, tichelgaten, bosopslag and swamps.
The orchid is widespread in Europe, especially in central Europe.
The plant is legally protected in the Netherlands and Belgium and is on the Dutch Red List of plants as relatively rare and has fallen sharply.
The main threats to the orchid, the broad habitats? Of its habitats. In some natural areas, the land held by artificially barren after mowing the grass disposal. In this way remains wide orchid preserved in these areas.
Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brede_orchis
See also: Sending Flowers, Online Florist
