2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Asian swimsuit (lat. Trollius asiaticus) - a perennial herb with a bright orange flower, a representative of the Kupalnitsa genus (Latin Trollius) of the Buttercup family (Latin Ranunculaceae). For its bright flower petals, the plant carries the popular name "Asian Fire" or simply "Fire". The external similarity with another species of the genus, Kytmanov's Bath, introduces confusion in the literature about these two plants, in which botanists find a number of differences. The Asian bather is a very showy plant, standing out with its bright flowers against the green foliage.
What's in your name
There are several versions about the origin of the Latin name of the genus "Trollius", since the botanist who gave the genus of plants such a name did not leave information to the descendants, which prompted him to come up with a similar name.
Some refer to the ancient Germanic word "Troll", meaning "ball" associated with the shape of a flower. By the way, in the English-language literature there are similar names: "Globeflower" ("Globe-flower") or "Globe flower" ("Globe flower"), indirectly confirming this version.
Others cite as an example the German word "Trollblume", meaning "Troll flower", which was allegedly held in high esteem by forest fairy-tale inhabitants.
It is possible that the basis was the Swedish word "Troll", meaning "witchcraft, enchantment". Although the plant has nothing to do with the trolls from Scandinavian mythology, usually hostile to humans, its carved leaves and bright lights of flowers are full of charm. Although the plant has a share of "harmfulness", the acrid taste of the fresh grass Trollius is poisonous to herbivores, and therefore they fill the earthly spaces without fear for their lives.
The Russian name "Kupalnitsa" was given to the plant for its love for the moist soils of meadows and forest glades.
The specific Latin epithet "asiaticus" says that this species of the genus chose the Asian lands for its place of residence.
Description
The perennial basis of the Asiatic Bathing Lady is the underground system of numerous cord-like roots. A single erect stem can be simple or slightly branching. The surface of the stem is smooth, the height, depending on the habitat conditions, ranges from 10 (ten) to 80 (eighty) centimeters.
Picturesque leaves, cut into five segments of a rhombic shape, change their habits as they are located along the height of the stem. Basal petioles are provided with long petioles, which become shorter higher along the stem, completely disappearing closer to the apex. The dimensions of the leaf plate become smaller and smaller with the height of the stem. Each independent segment of the common leaf is also incised into cloves-cloves of various sizes. The result of such a jewelry work of nature is a pentagonal openwork leaf.
The moisture-loving plant blooms in May-June, when the soil is still saturated with the moisture of melted snow, covering the forest glades with a continuous orange-red carpet of large flowers, similar to miniature roses. The diameter of the flowers reaches 5 (five) centimeters. Sepals and petals are colored in the same orange-red color and reliably protect the ovary and stamens, admitting only insects to them that provide a pollination service in exchange for flower nectar.
The fruits, without waiting for the hot July, ripen by the beginning of its arrival in the form of numerous leaflets.
Healing abilities
Such a bright plant could not remain unnoticed by traditional healers. The cause of the caustic nature of the herb of the Asiatic Bath, which is not to the taste of herbivores, are alkaloids, which in large quantities become poisonous to living things, but when the correct dosage is used, they turn into a medicine that has anti-inflammatory and diuretic effects.
In addition to alkaloids, in the stems, leaves and flowers of the Asian Bathing Lady there are coumarins, a number of trace elements (for example, calcium, iron, manganese), as well as vitamins that give the plant antiscorbutic abilities.
Needs protection
The Asian bather needs protection from people who barbarously destroy the beauty of nature.
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