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Rezuha (Latin Arabis) - a numerous genus of herbaceous plants with the Latin name Arabis (
Arabis), referred by botanists to the Cabbage family (lat. Brassicaceae). For various reasons, many species of plants of the genus Arabis are in the process of extinction from our many-sided planet. For all plants of the genus, characteristic features are: unpretentiousness to the conditions of life; decorative leaf shape; small fragrant flowers with four delicate petals and inexhaustible vitality and resistance to adversity.
What's in your name
The Latin name of the genus "Arabis" is based on the Greek words "arabid", "arabis", which in turn are associated with the ability of representatives of the genus to grow in rocky or sandy soil. At least that is how the word “Arabis” is interpreted by the “New International English Dictionary” (Webster's New International English Dictionary, Webster, 2012).
Let's believe the dictionary, because some species of the genus "Arabis", which arose about 2 (two) million years ago in Asia Minor, after 1.5 million years moved to East Africa, where they still grow today in the heather belt of the eastern African high mountains. These territories are also associated with the Arab people, whose name has Semitic roots. One of the roots is the word "desert". This is how the sandy and rocky soils with the Latin name of the genus of plants docked.
The free "translation" of the Latin name of the genus, which turned it into the word "Rezuha", is, of course, in no way connected with dictionaries, but is based on folk art, which took the appearance of the leaves of certain plant species as the basis for the name of the genus, armed with a sharp jagged edge capable of causing a serious injury to human skin.
Description
Low or medium-sized (from 10 to 80 centimeters high) perennial or annual plants with an erect, non-branching stem. As a rule, the plants are covered with dense pubescence. Some of the leaves form a basal rosette, others are located along the stem height. The leaves are whole, simple or lobed, in many species with a jagged edge, sometimes very prickly. Creeping aerial shoots and basal rosettes are frost-resistant and hibernate under snow.
A paniculate inflorescence of small flowers is born at the top of the stem in spring. The flower structure is typical for the Cabbage family, the corolla consists of four petals with white, yellow, pink color or different shades of violet-lilac.
The fruit is a long, cylindrical polyspermous pod containing 10 to 20 or more seeds.
Varieties
* Razuha arrowhead (Latin Arabis sagittata)
* Tower rezuha (lat. Arabis turrita)
* Rough rezuha (lat. Arabis hirsuta)
* Razuha yellow (Latin Arabis flaviflora)
* Alpine rezuha (lat. Arabis alpina)
* Caucasian rezuha (lat. Arabis caucasica)
* Rezuha Gerard (lat. Arabis gerardii)
* Mealy mealy (lat. Arabis farinacea)
* Karategin rezuha (Latin Arabis karategina).
Usage
Most of the species today are not so closely studied by humans, and therefore are listed in weeds.
Some species are used in culture as an ornamental garden plant. These include, in particular, Alpine rezuha (Arabis alpina) and Caucasian rezukha (Arabis caucasica). The plants fell in love with gardeners for their unpretentious disposition, decorative leaves, fragrant abundant flowering for two spring months. Numerous stems create whole picturesque curtains that can decorate both a flower garden (for example, joining a company with scarlet tulips, yellow-eyed daffodils or purple hyacinths), and remain a single white or purple-purple spot on a lawn that is starting to turn green. Can be used as a ground cover plant in the near-stem circles of fruit trees.
Many species are endangered and listed in the Red Data Books.
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Caucasian Rezuha
Caucasian rezuha (lat.Arabis caucasica) - an evergreen flowering perennial plant of the genus Rezuha (Latin Arabis), ranked by botanists in the Cabbage family (Latin Brassicaceae). At first, Caucasian Rezukha was considered a subspecies of Alpine Rezuha (Latin Arabis alpina), but further genetic studies of the plant showed that it is an independent species of the genus.
Alpine Rezuha
Alpine rezuha (lat.Arabis alpina) - a perennial flowering evergreen plant growing in mountainous regions, belonging to the genus Rezuha (Latin Arabis) of the Cabbage family (Latin Brassicaceae). The spreading plant quickly forms solid cushions of rosettes of curvy basal leaves, which in spring are covered with a dense carpet of small 4-petal flowers of white or pink color.
Hanging Rezuha
Hanging rezuha is one of the plants of the family called cabbage or cruciferous, in Latin the name of this plant will sound as follows: Arabis pendula L. As for the name of the family of the drooping rezuha itself, in Latin it will be like this:
Arrowhead Rezuha
Arrowhead rezuha (Latin Arabis sagittata) - one of the plant species of the genus Rezuha (lat. Arabis), ranked in the Cabbage family (lat. Brassicaceae), which differs from numerous perennial relatives in one or two years of life. The short life of the plant, combined with the barbarism of man in relation to the plant world of our planet, put Rezukha arrowhead in some areas of natural growth (for example, in the Vologda and Vladimir regions of immense Russia) on the brink of e
