Senin, 05 Juli 2010

The Purple Toothwort Blossom

The purple toothwort (Lathraea clandestina) or prachtschubwortel is a low growing plant in the broomrape family (Orobanchaceae).

The plant is on the Flemish red list of plants listed as rare. They will be locally abundant in the Flemish Ardennes and the Zwalm Valley. On a few other places, as in Meise and the Dyle Valley, she also found wild.

In the Netherlands they are not classified as occurring in the wild, but few copies seem to have escaped from the Botanical Garden TU Delft. The seeds are also spread by seed from abroad. She is more in Barendrecht (ZH), Rijswijk, Zoetermeer and west of Breukelen found.

The plant is outside the low countries of France (Lower Normandy, Pyrenees and Massif Central) to northern Spain and central Italy. Belgium is the traditional northern boundary of its range. Presumably she was there originally, centuries ago, with parasitized seed. In other countries like England and Germany, they found neglected locally.

The purple toothwort usually parasitizes the roots of poplar and willow, but also the roots of alder and hazel are found.

This plant has no stem above ground. It blooms in March to May with long stalks 4-5 cm long flowers directly from the rootstock (rhizome) are.

The host minimized because the burden of this parasitic flowering and fruiting during the lentesapstroom place and the surface area of the plant then dies.


Names in other languages:

• English: Hidden Tooth Wort

• German: Purpur-Schuppen Wurz

• French: Lathree clandestine, clandestine ecailleuse




Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paarse_schubwortel


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