Feather shrubs

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Feather shrubs
Large plume shrub (Fothergilla major)

Large plume shrub ( Fothergilla major )

Systematics
Class : Bedecktsamer (Magnoliopsida)
Eudicotyledons
Nuclear eudicotyledons
Order : Saxifragales (Saxifragales)
Family : Witch Hazel Family (Hamamelidaceae)
Genre : Feather shrubs
Scientific name
Fothergilla
L.
Flowers of the alder-leaved plume shrub ( Fothergilla gardenii )

The plume bushes ( Fothergilla ) are a genus of the witch hazel family (Hamamelidaceae). Your home is the southeastern North America. Because of their pretty flowers and colorful autumn leaves, both species of the genus are used as ornamental plants.

description

The plume shrubs are deciduous, slow-growing shrubs with brown branches and five to eight millimeters long terminal buds. The bark of older branches is light gray and smooth. Shoots and bud scales are covered with star hair. The leaves are alternate. They are not divided, obovate to elliptical and the upper half is roughly serrated. The color is light to medium green in summer, the autumn color is carmine red to orange-yellow. The petiole is about seven millimeters long and hairy. The stipules are shed early. The flowers are in terminal, upright spikes three to eight centimeters long . The single flower has a simple flower cover with a five- to seven-lobed calyx . The approximately 24 stamens have white, up to 2.5 centimeters long and clearly thickened stamens and yellow anthers. The ovary is two-faced and superordinate. The flowers are fragrant. As fruits 10 to 15 millimeters long, sedentary, braunborstige are cap fruits formed where pen and cup remain. The capsules open with two lobes, the two seeds are about eight millimeters long and shiny light brown.

Distribution and location requirements

The two species of the genus are native to southeastern North America.

Systematics

Fothergilla is a genus of the witch hazel family (Hamamelidaceae). There it is assigned to the tribe Fothergilleae in the subfamily Hamamelidoideae . The generic name Fothergilla is reminiscent of the English doctor and gardening friend John Fothergill (1712-1780).

The genus contains two types:

  • Alder-leaved plume shrub ( Fothergilla gardenii Murray ) with a heart-shaped leaf base and leaves a maximum of 6 centimeters long
  • Large plume shrub ( Fothergilla major (Sims) Lodd. , Syn .: Fothergilla monticola Ashe ) with a wedge-shaped rounded leaf base and leaves that are more than 6 centimeters long

use

The plume shrubs are used as ornamental shrubs because of their flowers and the splendid autumn colors , but they are somewhat demanding.

proof

literature

  • 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. 302.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Fothergilla. In: Flora of North America Vol. 3. www.eFloras.org, accessed on October 26, 2010 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 302
  3. ↑ Fothergilla. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed October 26, 2010 .

Web links

Commons : Plume Shrubs  - Collection of images, videos, and audio files