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Small-leaved Kalmia (lat. Kalmia microphylla) - undersized shrub with small leaves from the genus Kalmia (Latin Kalmia), representing the Heather family on Earth (Latin Ericaceae). The noble appearance of the plant is very deceiving and hides a poisonous plant behind a pleasant facade, with which one should very carefully communicate. But, as has been known since ancient times, any poison, at the correct dosage, becomes a person's assistant in the fight against pathogenic microbes and viruses.
What's in your name
Such a beautiful genus name like Kalmia keeps in human memory the name of a botanist who devoted his labor activity to the cultivation of exotic plants on the American continent. The name is Per Kalm. As a colleague of Karl Linnaeus, the main person in the classification of the plant world of our amazingly rich planet, he was awarded this honor by Linnaeus.
Since the plant does not differ in large size, and its leaves are also small, therefore, the specific name was the Latin word "microphylla", the origins of which lie in the ancient Greek language, which sounds in Russian as "small-leaved".
The plant, which is native to the western territories of North America, has many popular names. Among them there are the following names: "Western bog laurel", "Swamp laurel", "High-mountain laurel", in which the place of their growth is immediately guessed. True, the last two names are used by the people for other plant species of the genus growing in the eastern lands of North America, creating confusion. Unless, such plants are separated by large distances between themselves, and therefore never intersect, forced to live for many years in one place.
Description
Although small-leaved Kalmia is an evergreen plant, only in spring and summer does it show activity, increasing the height of the stems, the green mass, and therefore does not succeed in the size of the bush and leaves. The traditional plant height is indicated by a mark of 60 cm. But, under very favorable living conditions, small-leaved Kalmia can surpass itself and rise to a mark of 180 cm.
Young green shoots are covered with pubescence, but gradually they become bald, turning into grayish or reddish-brown smooth stems of a low shrub.
Lanceolate, oppositely sitting, leathery leaves tend to fold their edges into a tube, like a man folds papyrus scrolls, making them even narrower than they were created by nature. The dark green surface of the tough leaves becomes much lighter on the back facing the ground.
The pink or purple bowl-shaped flowers of five delicate petals fused together are attractive to insects, which touch the stamens with their paws when they touch the flower, transferring pollen from one flower to another, so that the flowers can be reborn into fruits.
The fruit is a five-capsule ajar box with seeds.
Small-leaved Kalmia grows not only in swamps. It can be found in alpine wet meadows and in other places with moist soil.
Healing abilities
Like many plant species included by botanists in the genus Kalmia, small-leaved Kalmia absorbed from the soil into its leaves, flowers, fruits
toxic substanceshelping her to fight for survival in this, not always friendly, world.
A person who understands poisons and knows how to dose them uses natural evil for the benefit of himself and other people. The poisons of the plant in small quantities help to neutralize pathogenic microbes that love to occupy wounds on the human body. Such an effect accelerates the process of tightening the wounded skin of a newborn, restoring its integrity and restoring vitality to a person.
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