2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Aster cannot be confused with any other plant, although there are many externally similar flowers in the garden kingdom. It is not for nothing that a French botanist of the 18th century dubbed her "The Queen of Daisies". But queens also have biological traits, which we will try to get to know today
Roots and stem of a herbaceous plant
A taproot, from which a powerful network of lateral roots departs, helps to grow a strong and sturdy aster.
To match the powerful roots, a solid single erect stem, which can be simple or branched, rises above the ground. The stem is often painted green, but sometimes it is slightly reddish. To protect against annoying insects, the stem is densely covered with slightly curved hairs.
The height of the plant depends on the variety and varies from 20 centimeters to 1 meter. This allows the aster to be used in any type of flower garden. Dwarf asters with a height of 20-30 cm can become an elegant border of a flower garden; medium-sized (up to 60 cm) and tall (up to 70 cm) will comfortably sit in the middle or background of the mixborder; giant asters growing up to 1 meter in height will easily find their niche in the garden.
Branching bush
Aster bushes branch in different ways.
Medium-sized varieties often have less branchy stems, and therefore are better suited for making bouquets, that is, they are grown for cutting.
Dwarf and tall varieties like to branch out, thus providing more chances for abundant flowering. This makes them very decorative and desirable participants in flower beds and flower beds.
Bush shape
Depending on the shape of the bush, asters are divided into several groups:
• Asters with an oval bush shape.
• Asters with a pyramidal bush shape.
• Columnar bush asters.
• Asters with a wide spreading bush shape.
• Asters with a wide, strong bush shape.
Leaves
The leaves on the same stem differ from each other depending on their location on the stem. Conventionally, you can divide the stem into three parts, each of which feeds its greens in different ways. The lower leaves are larger. Those that are located in the middle third are smaller. The smallest, sessile leaves nestled in the upper part of the stem.
The lower leaves are oval-rhombic in shape with a pointed tip and an uneven coarse-toothed-serrate edge sit on the stem with the help of petioles. Medium leaves of an oblong shape with a slightly pointed tip and a coarse-toothed edge sit on a “winged” petiole formed by a wedge-shaped narrowing of the leaf itself to the point of attachment to the stem. Sessile upper leaves are lanceolate-spatulate-oblong with a blunt end.
All leaves have in common - protective cilia, located along the midrib of the leaf and the edges of the petiole.
Inflorescences
Pretty baskets-inflorescences of asters are composed of three types of flowers: reed, tubular and transitional. The variety of shapes, sizes, color of flowers amazes the imagination and is a merit not only of nature, but also of the creative ingenuity of breeders. It was the breeders who expanded the color palette, brought out lush double inflorescences, in which you cannot immediately see the tubular flowers located in the center of the inflorescence.
Ligulate flowers - the main outfit of the inflorescence, can be tapered, flat, twisted into a tube, scapular, pointed-needle-shaped, boat-shaped.
Tubular flowers are located in the center of the inflorescence, building spiral rows of female and male flowers. And between them and the ligulate flowers, as if creating a neutral strip, the flowers of the transitional type are located.
Seeds
Aster seeds of different varieties differ in shape, size, weight, color and quantity in one basket.
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