Pipe bushes

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Pipe bushes
False jasmine (Philadelphus × virginalis), here as a cultivated horticultural form with double flowers

False jasmine ( Philadelphus × virginalis ), here as a cultivated horticultural form with double flowers

Systematics
Eudicotyledons
Nuclear eudicotyledons
Asterids
Order : Dogwood-like (Cornales)
Family : Hydrangea family (Hydrangeaceae)
Genre : Pipe bushes
Scientific name
Philadelphus
L.

The Philadelphus ( Philadelphus ) constitute a genus within the family of hydrangeaceae (Hydrangeaceae) or a separate family of Pfeifenstrauch plants (Philadelphaceae) together with Kirengeshoma . The approximately 70 species are mainly found in North America and East Asia. The best known species in Europe is the common pipe bush ( Philadelphus coronarius ), which, like some other plant species , is also called false jasmine. Some Philadelphus species and their varieties are used as ornamental plants in parks and gardens . The common German name Pfeifenstrauch comes from the fact that the pulp inside the branches can be easily removed so that children can make pipes from it.

description

Illustration from Southern wild flowers and trees, p. 224, panel LXVII by Philadelphus hirsutus
Leaf with petiole and the typical leaf veins on the leaf blade of the European pipe bush ( Philadelphus coronarius )
Illustration of Philadelphus satsumanus
Flowering branch of Philadelphus karwinskyanus

Vegetative characteristics

Philadelphus species are woody plants, they are almost always independently upright growing, rarely climbing shrubs . There are both deciduous and evergreen species.

The always- against-constantly arranged deciduous leaves are divided into a short petiole and leaf blade. On the simple leaf blade, three or five distinct leaf veins usually go forward from the blade base . The leaf edge can be whole or sawn. There are no stipules .

Generative characteristics

The flowers are rarely single, usually in large numbers in paniculate , racemose or zymose inflorescences that are formed on this year's wood.

In many species, the flowers give off a more or less intense fruity smell, which has earned them the common German name "Falscher Jasmin" and the common English name "mock orange". The hermaphroditic flowers are radial symmetry and usually four-fold, sometimes five-fold with a double flower envelope . The four or rarely five sepals are fused with each other and with the ovary. The four or five petals rarely have turned (contorte) vernation on as in the related Kirengeshoma and are white or cream, sometimes at the base and slightly reddish one. The 13-90 stamens sit in a tight circle on the circular ring-shaped flower axis covering the entire ovary surrounds. The flat stamens are often a little overgrown or free at their base. The yellow or whitish anthers ( anthers ) are egg-shaped or elongated, rarely spherical. Usually four or rarely five carpels are fused to form a subordinate or semi-subordinate, usually four or rarely five-chamber ovary. There are many pendulous ovules. The stylus is usually four, rarely three or five lobes.

The capsule fruit opens with four or rarely five valves and contains more than ten seeds per fruit compartment. The rusty brown seeds are spindle-shaped and sometimes tailed.

The basic chromosome number is x = 13.

Locations

The majority of the species grows in bushes or as undergrowth in mixed forests on mountain slopes.

Systematics and distribution

The genus Philadelphus belongs to the tribe Philadelpheae in the subfamily Hydrangeoideae within the family of Hydrangeaceae .

The genus Philadelphus was designed by Carl Linnaeus in his work Species Plantarum erected . The scientific generic name Philadelphus can be traced back to the Egyptian king Ptolemaios II . He was nicknamed Philadelphos (from the Greek philein = love and adelphos = brother, sister). A synonym for Philadelphus L. is Syringa Mill. Nom. illegal.

They are found from western and southeastern North America (about nine species) via Mexico to Central America and in Eurasia from the southeastern Mediterranean area via the Caucasus to East Asia and the Himalayas . Main areas of distribution are the New World and East Asia.

Mexican pipe bush ( Philadelphus mexicanus )
Small-leaved pipe bush ( Philadelphus microphyllus ), flowers
Flowers and leaves of the soft-haired pipe bush ( Philadelphus pubescens )

The genus Philadelphus contains 25 to about 70 species (selection):

use

Because of their pretty, fragrant flowers, various species are planted as ornamental shrubs . Most of the plants offered are, however, hybrids , especially between the European pipe bush , the Oregon pipe bush and the small-leaved pipe bush .

proof

literature

  • Alan S. Weakley, James Henrickson: Philadelphus Linnaeus. - Same text online as the printed work , In: Flora of North America Editorial Committee: Flora of North America , Volume 12: Magnoliophyta: Vitaceae to Garryaceae , Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford 2016, ISBN 978-0-1906-4372-0 .
  • 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 , pp. 447-450.
  • Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven (Ed.): Flora of China . Volume 8: Brassicaceae through Saxifragaceae . Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis 2001, ISBN 0-915279-93-2 , pp. 395 (English).
  • Göritz, Hermann: Deciduous and coniferous trees for garden and landscape , Deutscher Landwirtschaftsverlag Berlin, 6th edition 1986, ISBN 3-331-00031-0
  • Helmut Genaust: Etymological dictionary of botanical plant names. 3rd, completely revised and expanded edition. Nikol, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-937872-16-7 , p. 215 (reprint from 1996).

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah Huang Shumei, Hideaki Ohba, Shinobu Akiyama: Philadelphus , p. 395 - Text same online as printed work , In: Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven, Deyuan Hong (Eds.): Flora of China. Volume 8: Saxifragaceae. Science Press and Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing and St. Louis 2010, ISBN 0-915279-93-2 .
  2. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Alan S. Weakley, James Henrickson: Philadelphus Linnaeus. - Same text online as the printed work , In: Flora of North America Editorial Committee: Flora of North America , Volume 12: Magnoliophyta: Vitaceae to Garryaceae , Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford 2016, ISBN 978-0-1906-4372-0 .
  3. a b c d e Philadelphus in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
  4. Helmut Genaust: Etymological Dictionary of Botanical Plant Names, pp. 477–478
  5. a b c d e f g German name after Roloff et al .: Flora of the woods

Web links

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