Garden mignonette
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The garden mignonette ( Reseda odorata ), also called scented mignonette , is a type of plant from the genus Reseda .
description
Vegetative characteristics
The garden mignonette is an annual herbaceous plant and reaches heights of 10 to 30 centimeters. Every now and then the upper leaves are three-columned.
Generative characteristics
The hermaphrodite, fragrant flowers are six-fold and greenish-yellowish. In the case of the two upper petals, the plate is apparently nine to twelve-lobed with spatulate tips. The awkward stamens are obsolete.
The hanging capsule fruit is 9 to 11 millimeters in size and spherical.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 12.
ecology
The garden mignonette is a stem therophyte .
Occurrence
It occurs in the southern Aegean and Cyrenaica . The garden mignonette grows there in rock corridors. The flowering time extends there from February to May.
use
The garden mignonette is mostly used as an annual ornamental plant in the temperate latitudes . Because of its pleasant, violet-like scent of flowers, the mignonette is a popular cottage garden plant .
It used to be very common in gardens since the 18th century and was also used as a bee pasture .
Cultivation
The garden mignonette loves full sun, but also half sun locations. It thrives best in rich, loamy soils . It does not tolerate waterlogging and is easy to care for.
The sowing takes place in April outdoors.
poetry
The love poem by Hermann von Gilm (1812–1864) is well known:
All Souls
' Day Put the fragrant mignonette on the table, Bring the
last red asters
and let's talk about love again
like once in May.
Give me your hand that I can secretly squeeze it,
And when you see it, I don't care;
Just give me one of your sweet looks
like once in May.
Today it blooms and sparkles on every grave,
One day in the year is free for the dead;
Come to my heart that I have you again,
As once in May.
supporting documents
literature
- Ralf Jahn, Peter Schönfelder: Excursion flora for Crete . With contributions by Alfred Mayer and Martin Scheuerer. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 1995, ISBN 3-8001-3478-0 , p. 128 .
- Lutz Roth, Kurt Kormann: Scented plants, plant scents . econmed-Verlag, 1996, ISBN 3-609-65140-7 .
- Ruprecht Düll , Herfried Kutzelnigg : Pocket dictionary of plants in Germany and neighboring countries. The most common Central European species in portrait. 7th, corrected and enlarged edition. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-494-01424-1 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Erich Oberdorfer : Plant-sociological excursion flora for Germany and neighboring areas. 8th edition, Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3131-5 , page 478.
