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"Lyubnik" or "Vesennik" is popularly called this sunny flower, and its official name is "Erantis", which, translated from Greek, immediately indicates the time of its appearance in the sublunary world: he loves to amaze with suddenness, appearing right from under the snow in early spring … He will decorate the earth that wakes up from hibernation for 2-3 weeks and retires until next spring, without causing trouble for the gardener
Rod Erantis
The number of species of the genus is equal to the number of the main Wonders of the World, the magic number 7. Which is very symbolic. After all, its amazing frost resistance and unpretentiousness once again demonstrate the wonders of living nature.
The herbaceous perennial plant is helped to survive by thickened fleshy roots, sometimes forming small nodules, in which the plant stores nutrients necessary to continue its presence on the planet.
Small, but bright in their golden-yellow plumage flowers, crowning short peduncles, are additionally decorated with a carved frill of green palm-shaped leaves of the bracts, with light veins that stand out on the leaf surface. Basal finely dissected leaves on long petioles may appear a little later than already blossoming flowers.
Varieties of Lyubnik
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Erantis winter (Eranthis hyemalis) is a true winter species up to 10 centimeters high, golden-yellow small flowers of which appear in February directly from under the snow. Leaves are light green, heavily indented.
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Erantis of Cilician (Eranthis cilicica) - practically, creeping species, up to 7 centimeters high. Graceful frills of bracts form a solid green carpet, which is decorated with bright yellow flowers, crowning pinkish peduncles.
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Erantis Tubergena (Eranthis x thunbergii) - a garden hybrid, a child of the Cilician and winter Lyubniks, which is taller, with larger flowers and yellower, a green "frill" of bracts with a bronze tint. Species with fragrant flowers are bred..
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Erantis siberian (Eranthis sibiricas) is a plant with a short lifespan. Its white single flowers appear in May, and in June, the aerial part of the tuberous Erantis already dries up, reviving the next spring.
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Erantis stellated (Eranthis stellata) - flowers with pale white petals, with a slight purple tinge below, look like little celestial stars. Their heavenly beauty does a disservice to the plant, whose flowers people pick in April for bouquets, contributing to the extinction of the species.
Growing
Unpretentious to soil. It can be any cultivated soil fertilized with leaf humus.
The damp and loose soil, protected by the crowns of trees and shrubs, frees the gardener from watering. It is required only at the stage of initial plant growth. Mineral feeding is carried out only when plants are planted in a permanent place.
Places are chosen for them, both sunny and partial shade. They perfectly tolerate both heat and cold.
When propagated by seeds, flowering occurs in the third year of life. Moreover, the seeds quickly lose their germination, and therefore their sowing is required, following immediately after the collection of seeds. Before sowing, it is advisable to stratify the seeds. They often reproduce by self-seeding, as in the wild.
It is easier and more efficient to propagate by dividing their fleshy rhizomes or using their small tubers. Such a division is carried out in August, deepening the divisions by 2-3 centimeters.
Can be affected by fungi that cause a disease called "smut".
Usage
Lovers are good for alpine slides, rocky gardens.
They feel very at ease under the deciduous shrubs and trees, which provide them with their familiar natural environment, in which they grow strong and give abundant golden-yellow spring flowering.
Lyubniks willingly coexist with other spring-flowering plants, for example, with crocuses, snowdrops, kandyk, liverwort, proleskaya.
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