Pulsatilla Kuhschellen

From March to May every year, White-headed Weng perfectly interprets the transformation of young people into old people with vicissitudes of life, and people who are susceptible to it will sigh that the future is not long, and time always changes.

Fortunately, Pulsatilla is a perennial plant, their reincarnation only needs one spring, summer, autumn and winter.

Pulsatilla (Pulsatilla)

The genus Pulsatilla of Ranunculaceae

Beautiful teenager, crane-haired white-headed Weng

Red European Pulsatilla

Pulsatilla vulgaris rubra29.04.2017 Hermannshof, Weinheim

Perennial, herbaceous, flowering in early spring, leaves and stems on the ground are soft and hairy, these fine hairs can protect Pulsatilla from the cold of early spring; the gorgeous part we see is not petals, but calyx, mostly purple, covered with white fine villi, very playful and lovely, of course, in an ecologically dry primary environment, these fine villi prevent excessive evaporation of calyx water. The bright yellow stamens, in sharp contrast to the Corolla, are sharp tools for attracting bees; the central cluster of pistils is equally eye-catching, and it is the styles of the pistils that will become silver-haired.

European Pulsatilla

Pulsatilla vulgaris11.04.2018, my garden.

There are about 33 species of Pulsatilla, native to meadows or steppes of the Northern Hemisphere: native species are found in Europe, Asia and North America. The genus name Pulsatilla comes from the Latin Pulsare, or pulsquarta, pulsquartus, meaning "beat, ring, ring", referring to the fact that most of the flowers of this genus are bell-shaped and bell-shaped, swaying in the wind. Originally, in the Flora, Linnai 1753 classified Pulsatilla as Anemone pulsatilla, which was literally translated as Pulsatilla anemone. But the plants of the genus Pulsatilla had obviously alienated feathered nutlets, which led later botanists to set up a new genus.

European Pulsatilla

Pulsatilla vulgaris11.04.2018, my garden.

In English, pulsatilla is commonly known as pasque flower or Easter flower. Easter flowers refer to their flowering around Easter; there are also commonly known as wind flower (wind flower) or meadow anemone (meadow anemone, meadow anemone), confusing the genus anemone and anemone.) their genetic relationship can be seen. In Germany, Pulsatilla has a very vivid and approachable name, Kuhschellen, Niu Ling Dang. Find a grazing map of the Alps on the Internet to compare whether the unopened bud of Pulsatilla is somewhat similar to the big bell on the neck of a cow.

European Pulsatilla

Pulsatilla vulgarisrubra "Rosen Glocke" 11.04.2018 my garden

From the network

The most common pulsatilla in Europe is Pulsatilla vulgaris, and the Latin name vulgaris is commen, popular, a common meaning, named by the English gardener Philip Miller in 1768, indicating that this species is common in central and western Europe. The natural habitat of European pulsatilla is nutrient-poor calcareous steppe or calcareous hillside. This kind of German commonly known as Gew?hnliche Kuhschelle, common Niuling flower, common Niuling flower. With the development of modern agriculture, this once common pulsatilla is now on the list of endangered species in many areas. In 1996, European pulsatilla was selected as Germany's annual flower to draw attention to the endangered wild pulsatilla.

European Pulsatilla

Pulsatilla vulgaris11.04.2017Botanical Garden of the University of Heidelberg

Fortunately, with the popularity of gardening varieties, especially the rock garden system, pulsatilla has moved from the wild to the garden, and now white, pink and red varieties are also popular. White-headed Weng is a landscape of its own, regardless of whether it is young and beautiful when it blossoms or its silver hair is elegant when it bears fruit.

White European Pulsatilla

Pulsatilla vulgaris alba11.04.2018, my garden.

Pink European Pulsatilla

Pulsatilla vulgaris "Rosen Glocke" 11.04.2018 my garden

Red European Pulsatilla

Pulsatilla vulgaris rubra18.04.2018 Hermannshof, Weinheim

The 'white head' of Pulsatilla is actually made up of countless achenes. After pollination, the Corolla and stamens dry and fall off, while the gynoecium develops with the development of the ovary, and the styles continue to elongate to form a long hairy tail at the top of each achene, which is the reproductive mechanism by natural selection of Pulsatilla.

White European Pulsatilla

Pulsatilla vulgaris alba28.04.2018, my garden.

In dry weather, the wind can carry the fruit of a single feathered tail far away, while in wet weather, the long-feathered fruit may also stick to the coats of passing animals and be carried far away. And other studies have found that the tail feathers of pulsatilla fruit bend at right angles when dry and windless, and extend through slow water absorption in wet weather again. With the help of this physical process, small achenes can rotate once or twice on the head receptacle, loose and fall off spontaneously at a distance of 10 centimeters away from the mother. Once a small nut falls to the ground, it will soon 'bite' the ground with the help of a hygroscopic movement so that it can germinate there. Plants always have many such clever survival strategies:)

European Pulsatilla

Pulsatilla vulgaris28.04.2018, my garden.

Pulsatilla, like all Ranunculaceae plants, is poisonous! Once again, don't pick beautiful plants you don't know well, such as Pulsatilla, whose damaged plants are very irritating to the skin and mucous membranes, causing blistering and burning pain. Accidentally eating any part of the fresh plant of Pulsatilla chinensis can cause gastrointestinal discomfort and nervous system poisoning, ranging from diarrhea and vomiting to coma and paralysis. Their highly toxic component is Protoanemonin,Anemonol, which was first found in the genus Anemone of Ranunculaceae, so it should be proanemone in literal translation and proanemone in Chinese. When dried, proanemonin is converted into less toxic Anemonin, anemonin, which has anti-spasmodic and analgesic effects, as well as anti-fungal infections, which is why various primitive populations in the northern hemisphere have used the genus pulsatilla as a traditional plant medicine.

Pink European Pulsatilla

Pulsatilla vulgaris "Rosen Glocke" 11.04.2018 my garden

In China, there are about 11 species of Pulsatilla, accounting for 1. 3 of all Pulsatilla, among which the most common endemic species is Pulsatilla chinensis. My friend told me that when she was a child, she grew up with her parents in a company in the northeast. In early spring, Pulsatilla was one of the few flowers that could be seen there. It was called Maoguhua, which was very special in her memory. She wanted to plant it many times, but she felt that the German flower market was not as good-looking and implicit as she had seen in her childhood. One is the difference, and the other is the beautiful childhood memory. She may be familiar with Xing'an Pulsatilla Pulsatilladahurica. It is a pity that I have never had a chance to meet a real-life version of Chinese native pulsatilla.

European Pulsatilla

Pulsatilla vulgaris11.04.2018, my garden.

In traditional Chinese medicine, the rhizome of Pulsatilla pulsatilla is used as medicine, which is said to have the effects of clearing heat, detoxification, dispersing knots and treating dysentery. Therefore, most of the folk legends about Pulsatilla are that someone has a stomachache and has no money to cure diseases, and then an old man with white hair appears, pointing and ploughing the underground stem of this herb to boil soup medicine to cure the disease, and the old man is perfectly consistent with the silver hair of this magical plant, so this plant has the name of 'Pulsatilla'.

Pink European Pulsatilla

Pulsatilla vulgaris "Rosen Glocke" 28.04.2018 my garden

One of the most famous versions is du Fu, who has unbearable abdominal pain. it is said that du Fu also wrote a poem "self-pity white-headed no one asks, but the poor man is white-headed Weng". It is a pity that I did not find out the origin of the original poem. It is a myth to say that he named the white-headed Weng. However, du Fu's self-designed Pulsatilla Weng repeatedly appeared in his poems, "I have not been a pearl performer, I have seen Baitou Weng", "the old friend got a good sentence, only gave it to Baitou Weng", "with thousands of miles together, he is always a Baitou Weng".

White European Pulsatilla

Pulsatilla vulgaris alba28.04.2018, my garden.

Unlike du Fu's sadness and melancholy, Su Shi is in adversity, but the image of Pulsatilla is calm and passionate.'a thousand hectares of land, the mirror is clean, but the peak is inverted. Suddenly the waves rose and danced a white-headed Weng. Li Bai, on the other hand, is probably the most naive of the poets and poets. He wrote about Pulsatilla and compared it with his sideburns in the mirror:) 'how can there be Pulsatilla in the grass? If you take the right mirror, Wan will be the same as the temples. Wen Ru is really the case, even if he sighs that he is old, he can become an old urchin in full bloom. Suddenly thought of his'I don't know in the mirror, where did the autumn frost come from', how much he should love to look in the mirror:)

European Pulsatilla

Pulsatilla vulgarisrubra28.05.2017 Hermannshof, Weinheim

In the twinkling of an eye, I am so old that even the anxiety that I just realized a few years ago is gone:) secretly remind myself that the time is gone, do more things I like in the future, pay more attention and be down-to-earth, and when I am eighty years old, I can be calm. It is remembered by Pulsatilla!