Hungarian lilac

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Hungarian lilac
Hungarian lilac (Syringa josikaea)

Hungarian lilac ( Syringa josikaea )

Systematics
Asterids
Euasterids I
Order : Mint family (Lamiales)
Family : Olive family (Oleaceae)
Genre : Lilac ( syringa )
Type : Hungarian lilac
Scientific name
Syringa josikaea
J.Jacq. ex Rchb.

The Hungarian lilac ( Syringa josikaea ) is a shrub with lilapurpurnen flowers from the family of Olive Family (Oleaceae). The natural distribution area is in Eastern and Southeastern Europe. The species is often used as an ornamental shrub.

description

The Hungarian lilac is a 3 to 4 meter high, stiffly upright shrub with thick, initially slightly hairy branches with scattered cork pores . Terminal buds are present. The leaves are divided into a petiole and a leaf blade. The leaf blade is simple, 6 to 12 centimeters long, elliptical to elongated elliptical, pointed or pointed, with a broad wedge-shaped or rounded base and a finely ciliated leaf margin. The upper side of the leaf is deep green, somewhat shiny and glabrous, the underside is gray-green. The leaf veins are hairy, but bald.

The flowers grow in 10 to 18 centimeters long, narrowly conical, finely hairy and mostly more or less upright panicles . The flowers are lilac purple and have a 1 to 1.5 centimeter long corolla tube with egg-shaped, more or less upright tips. The anthers are slightly above the middle of the corolla tube.

The Hungarian lilac blooms from May to June.

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 44.

distribution

The natural range is in Europe in the Carpathian region of Ukraine and Romania. The Hungarian lilac grows in species-rich forests on fresh to moist, acidic to neutral, sandy-humic to loamy-humic soils in sunny to light-shaded locations. The species loves warmth and is usually frost hardy . It is assigned to winter hardiness zone 5a with mean annual minimum temperatures of −26.0 to −23.4 ° C.

Systematics

The Hungarian Lilac ( Syringa josikaea ) 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 by Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach in 1830 for the first time scientifically valid described . The genus name Syringa was chosen by Linné in 1753, previously from the 16th century the name was used both for the common lilac ( Syringa vulgaris ) and for the European pipe bush ( Philadelphus coronarius ). The name can probably be derived from the Greek "syrigs", a wind instrument that can be made from the branches of the pipe bush. The specific epithet josikaea refers to the noble family "Josika de Branyicska" from Transylvania in the range of the species.

use

Inflorescence of the cultivar Syringa josikaea cv. 'Holger'

The Hungarian lilac is very often used as an ornamental shrub because of its decorative and fragrant flowers .

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. 639.
  • Jost Fitschen: Woody flora . 12th, revised and expanded edition. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2007, ISBN 3-494-01422-1 , p. 827 .
  • 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. 639 and after Fitschen: Gehölzflora , p. 827
  2. ↑ a b c d Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 639
  3. ↑ Syringa josikaea at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
  4. ↑ Fitschen: Gehölzflora , p. 827
  5. ↑ a b c Syringa josikaea. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed June 18, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Exactly: Etymological Dictionary of Botanical Plant Names , p. 625
  7. ↑ Exactly: Etymological Dictionary of Botanical Plant Names , p. 314

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