2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
The group of plants, which has received the name "immortelles" throughout the world, has a rather bright color and is famous for longevity, keeping its natural appearance in a dry state. Among the many species of immortelles, the most famous in our country is the sand immortelle. It not only decorates flower beds and dry bouquets, but also has unique healing abilities, and is also a reliable protection from moths for things made of natural wool
Under favorable conditions, the sandy immortelle, both in culture and in places of natural growth, forms dense tufts that protect the soil from erosion and compaction. During the flowering period, the plant emits a strong, distinctive, but pleasant aroma. It prefers sandy soils, growing on forest edges, clearings, wastelands, on pine meadows, thin forests, on rocky and chalk outcrops.
Habit
The sandy immortelle has a silvery color, which is given to it by the whitish tomentose pubescence of the stem and leaves.
Tsmin has a short woody rhizome of black-brown color, which makes it possible for the plant to be perennial. Non-branching stems reach a height of 15-30 centimeters, less often 60 centimeters. If, nevertheless, lateral shoots manage to grow, then they do not bear fruit.
Felt-pubescent alternate leaves up to 6 centimeters long have different shapes. While the lower and basal leaves, narrowed into petioles, have a spatulate-linear or obovate shape, the middle and upper ones are sessile, that is, they do not have petioles, with a linear or linear-lanceolate shape.
At the top of the stem is a spherical flower basket of yellow, rarely orange, color. Baskets, grouping in 10-30 pieces, form corymbose panicles of inflorescences. The dense inflorescence, from which flowering begins, gradually becomes loose. Wrapping leaves from bright lemon to orange color are stiff and rustling. It is they who give immortality to the plant.
The fruit of the cmin is a small achene.
Growing
Sandy immortelle is a rather unpretentious plant, but not without quirks. He does not tolerate complete shading, preferring sunny areas, on which he grows and develops much more successfully.
He loves sandy light soils, with good drainage, since he does not tolerate prolonged waterlogging, giving preference to drought.
Propagated by dividing the bush, growing rapidly in a new place. It is recommended to transplant after 3-4 years of life in one place, removing the old root rosettes that expose the flower clump in its very center.
Use in the garden
The immortelle demonstrates the greatest showiness in June-July, when its flowers bloom, but it is quite decorative throughout the entire spring-autumn season, being a ground cover perennial, forming dense curtains from bluish lanceolate leaves of basal rosettes.
It is great for all kinds of rockeries and rock gardens, perfectly combined with a scattering of small stones, including for creating mini rock gardens in containers for decorating balconies and terraces.
Cmin can be used to frame paths with a soft surface. Crawling onto the pathway, the plant will create the effect of naturalness.
The immortelle will be appropriate and decorative in the foreground of the Moorish lawn, mixborder.
All parts of the plant contain the antibiotic arenarin, which can suppress bacteriosis in your cultivated plants. By planting cmin next to other plants, you create a natural defense for them against disease-causing bacteria.
It will decorate a live bouquet of flowers, as well as a bouquet of dried flowers.
Medical use
Immortelle preparations are universal. They have hemostatic, diuretic and choleretic, analgesic and tonic, antiseptic and antihelminthic effects.
Traditional medicine uses infusions and decoctions from flower baskets to treat impotence.
Medicinal raw materials are harvested at the very beginning of flowering.
Contraindications:
The immortelle, possessing low toxicity, is capable of accumulating it, therefore it is not recommended to use it for more than three months in a row.
Hypertensive patients need to be careful when using immortelle-based drugs, as such drugs can increase blood pressure.
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