Meyer's lilacs

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Meyer's lilacs
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Meyer's lilac ( Syringa meyeri )

Systematics
Asterids
Euasterids I
Order : Mint family (Lamiales)
Family : Olive family (Oleaceae)
Genre : Lilac ( syringa )
Type : Meyer's lilacs
Scientific name
Syringa meyeri
CK cutting

Meyers Lilac ( Syringa meyeri ) is a small shrub with violet to white flowers from the family of the Oleaceae (Oleaceae). The natural range is in the north of China. The species is often used as an ornamental shrub.

description

Inflorescence and leaves

Meyer's lilac is a loosely built shrub up to 1.5 meters high with slightly square, bare or slightly downy-haired branches. Terminal buds are missing. The leaves have a stalk 0.6 to 1.5 centimeters long. The leaf blade is simple, 1 to 5 centimeters long and 0.8 to 3.5 centimeters wide, elliptical-egg-shaped to elliptical-obovate, more rarely egg-shaped, broadly egg-shaped or rounded, with a non-ciliated leaf margin, pointed, short-pointed or blunt tip and wedge-shaped or more or less rounded base. The five leaf veins are hand-shaped or almost hand-shaped. The upper side of the leaf is green and glabrous, the underside is lighter and hairy along the veins.

The flowers grow in upright and densely hairy panicles 2.5 to 10 centimeters long and 2.5 to 4 centimeters in diameter . The flower stalks are 1 to 2 millimeters long. The calyx is dark purple, about 3 millimeters long, glabrous or slightly downy-haired. The corolla is 1.7 to 2.0 centimeters long, blue-violet, bluish red, bluish pink or white. The corolla tube is 0.5 to 1.5 inches long and more or less cylindrical. The corolla lobes are elongated and spread out. The anthers are initially light brown, later turn black and lie below the throat. As fruit 1 to 2 centimeters long, oval and clearly with be Korkporen occupied capsules formed.

distribution

The natural range is in China in the province of Liaoning . Meyer's lilac grows in shrub areas on mountain slopes on dry to fresh, slightly acidic to strongly alkaline, sandy-humic or loamy-humic, nutrient-rich soils in sunny to light-shaded locations. The species is frost hardy .

Systematics

Meyers Lilac ( Syringa meyeri ) is a kind of the genus of Lilac ( Syringa ) in the family of Oleaceae (Oleaceae). There she is assigned to the tribe Oleeae. The species was first scientifically described by Camillo Karl Schneider in 1912 . The genus name Syringa was chosen by Linnaeus in 1753, previously from around the 16th century the name was used both for the common lilac ( Syringa vulgaris ) and for the European pipe bush ( Philadelphus coronarius ). It can probably be derived from the Greek "syrigs", a wind instrument that can be made from the branches of the pipe bush.

There are two varieties :

  • Syringa meyeri var. Meyeri with 2 to 5 centimeters long, 1.5 to 3.5 centimeters wide, elliptical-egg-shaped or elliptical-obovate, more rarely egg-shaped or more or less round leaf blades. The flowers are dense, the corolla is blue-violet, the corolla tube about 1.5 centimeters long. The variety blooms from April to June and August to September.
  • Syringa meyeri var. Spontanea M. C. Chang with 1 to 2 centimeters long, 0.8 to 1.8 centimeters wide and more or less round to broadly ovate leaf blades. The flowers stand loosely, the corolla is bluish red or white, the corolla tube about 0.5 to 0.8 centimeters long. The variety blooms in May, the fruits ripen from September to October. Plants with bluish red flowers and white flowers are assigned to different shapes (f. Spontanea and f. Alba ).

use

Meyer's lilac is often used as an ornamental shrub because of its decorative and fragrant flowers . The variety 'Palibin' differs from the species in that it is lower, densely branched and more compact. The flowers grow in small and numerous panicles. They are purple-red in the bud, when they open up are whitish-pink and mostly bloom on young plants. The variety blooms in June.

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literature

  • Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven (Ed.): Flora of China . Volume 15: Myrsinaceae through Loganiaceae . Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis 1996, ISBN 0-915279-37-1 , pp. 284 (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. 640.
  • Jost Fitschen: Woody flora . 12th, revised and expanded edition. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2007, ISBN 3-494-01422-1 , p. 829 .
  • 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 according to Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 640 and after Fitschen: Gehölzflora , p. 829
  2. ↑ a b Fitschen: Gehölzflora , p. 829
  3. ↑ a b c d Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 640
  4. ↑ a b c d Mei-chen Chang, Lien-ching Chiu, Zhi Wei, Peter S. Green: Syringa meyeri , in the Flora of China , Volume 15, p. 284
  5. ↑ a b c Syringa meyeri. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed June 23, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Exactly: Etymological Dictionary of Botanical Plant Names , p. 625
  7. ↑ Mei-chen Chang, Lien-ching Chiu, Zhi Wei, Peter S. Green: Syringa meyeri subsp. meyeri , in the Flora of China , Volume 15, p. 284
  8. ↑ Mei-chen Chang, Lien-ching Chiu, Zhi Wei, Peter S. Green: Syringa meyeri subsp. spontanea , in the Flora of China , Volume 15, p. 284

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