Chinese pea bush

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Chinese pea bush
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Chinese pea bush ( Caragana sinica )

Systematics
Order : Fabales (Fabales)
Family : Legumes (Fabaceae)
Subfamily : Butterflies (Faboideae)
Tribe : Galegeae
Genre : Pea bushes ( Caragana )
Type : Chinese pea bush
Scientific name
Caragana sinica
( Buc'hoz ) Rehder

The Chinese pea bush ( Caragana sinica ) is a small, light yellow flowering shrub and a representative of the butterfly family (Faboideae). The natural range of the species is in the north of China. It is sometimes used as an ornamental shrub.

description

Branch with flowers and leaves

The Chinese pea shrub is a bulky shrub that reaches a height of 1 to 2 meters. The shoots are yellow-brown and glabrous. The leaves are divided into a petiole and a leaf blade. The leaf blade is pinnate or sometimes fingered; the four leaflets are 1 to 3.5 centimeters long and 0.5 to 1.5 centimeters wide, obovate to oblong obovate, with a rounded or prickly tip. Both sides are dark green. The stipules verdornen. Petiole and leaf spindle are 0.7 to 1.5, rarely up to 2.5 centimeters long, thorny, persistent or sloping.

The butterfly flowers stand individually on stems about 1 centimeter long. The calyx is 1.2 to 1.4 inches long and bell-shaped. The corolla is light yellow and 2.8 to 3.0 centimeters wide. The flag is narrow, obovate, with a short nail . The wings have auricles and the nail is about the size of the plate . The shuttle is blunt. The ovary is bare. The legumes are cylindrical and 3 to 3.5 inches long. The Chinese pea bush blooms from April to May, the fruits ripen in July.

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 16 or 2n = 24.

Occurrence and location requirements

The natural range is in the Chinese provinces of Fujian , Guangxi , Guizhou , Hebei , Henan , Hubei , Hunan , Jiangsu , Jiangxi , Shaanxi , Sichuan , Yunnan and Zhejiang . It was introduced in Japan and has run wild. The Chinese pea bush grows in steppes and dry forests at an altitude of 400 to 1800 meters on dry to fresh, weakly acidic to strongly alkaline, sandy, sandy-gravelly or sandy-loamy soils in sunny to light-shaded locations. The species is sensitive to moisture, loves warmth and is usually frost hardy.

Systematics

The Chinese pea shrub ( Caragana sinica ) is a kind from the kind of caragana ( Caragana ) in the family of legumes (Fabaceae). There it is assigned to the tribe Hedysareae in the subfamily of the butterflies (Faboideae). Pierre Joseph Buc'hoz has 1784 kind as Robinia sinica ( Basionym ) first described , and thus the kind of the locust ( Robinia ) is assigned. Alfred Rehder placed them in the genus of the pea bushes ( Caragana ) in 1941 . The generic name Caragana is derived from the Middle Turkish word "qaraqan", which denotes a pea bush, the specific epithet sinica comes from the Greek and means "Chinese".

use

The Chinese pea shrub is rarely used as an ornamental shrub because of its decorative flowers .

proof

literature

  • Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven, Deyuan Hong (Eds.): Flora of China . Volume 10: Fabaceae . Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis 2010, ISBN 978-1-930723-91-7 , pp. 531 (English).
  • Andreas Roloff , Andreas Bärtels: Flora of the woods. Purpose, properties and use. With a winter key from Bernd Schulz. 3rd, corrected edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2008, ISBN 978-3-8001-5614-6 , p. 158.
  • Jost Fitschen: Woody flora . 12th, revised and expanded edition. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2007, ISBN 3-494-01422-1 , p. 386 .
  • Helmut Genaust: Etymological dictionary of botanical plant names. 3rd, completely revised and expanded edition. Nikol, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-937872-16-7 (reprint from 1996).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German name after Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 158 and Fitschen: Gehölzflora , p. 386
  2. ↑ a b c d e Mei-chen Chang, Lien-ching Chiu, Zhi Wei, Peter S. Green: Caragana sinica . In: Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven, Deyuan Hong (Eds.): Flora of China . Volume 10: Fabaceae . Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis 2010, ISBN 978-1-930723-91-7 , pp. 531 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c d Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 158
  4. ↑ a b Caragana sinica. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed April 10, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Robinia sinica. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed April 10, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Exactly: Etymological Dictionary of Botanical Plant Names , p. 126
  7. ↑ Exactly: Etymological Dictionary of Botanical Plant Names, pp. 587-588

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