Purple-black color--Persian fritillary bulb

Fritillaria, a plant of the genus Fritillaria in the lily family, native to western Asia and southern Turkey. Perennial bulbous plant, 30-60 cm (12-24 inches) tall, each plant can grow up to 30 conical or bell-shaped flowers, about 3 inch long, ranging from dark purple to greenish brown. Fritillaria thunbergii is one of the common horticultural plants in Europe, one of which is called "Adyaman", which has higher plants and more spikes than other varieties. this variety has won the Royal Society of Horticulture Garden Excellence Award.

Fritillaria Persia

Fritillaria is a genus of Liliaceae. Herbs perennial; bulbs deeply buried in soil, usually composed of 2 or 3 powdery scales, rarely with many scales. Stem erect, unbranched. Leaves usually cauline, opposite, whorled or scattered, apex sometimes strongly curled. Flowers are generally actinomorphic, single terminal or several arranged in racemes, rarely umbels, with leaflike bracts; tepals 6, free, often more or less conjoined, colored, sometimes checkered, with a sunken nectary nest near the base. Stamens 6, born at the base of perianth segments; anthers subbasifixed or dorsifixed, 2-loculed; style 3-lobed or indehiscent, stigma extending above stamens; ovary superior, 3-loculed, each locule with 2 vertical ovules. The fruit is a capsule with 6 edges, often with wings on the edges. Loculicidally dehiscent, with many flattened seeds. There are about 60 species, distributed in the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, especially in Central Asia, the Mediterranean coast and North America. There are about 30 species in China, with the exception of the southern provinces and regions. Xinjiang and Sichuan have the most wild species. Xisheng River beach, grassy slope, gravel crevice or under the forest.

Fritillaria Persia

Morphological features:

Perennial herbs; bulbs deeply buried in the soil, with bark outside, usually composed of 2 (- 3) albino scales (scales endophytic with 2-3 pairs of small scales), rarely composed of many scales and surrounding rice-grained scales, the former bulb is subovoid or globose, and the latter is often more or less rosette. Stems erect, unbranched, partly underground. Basal leaves long stipitate; cauline leaves opposite, whorled or scattered, apex curled or not curled, base semi-clasping. Flowers larger or slightly smaller, usually campanulate, pendulous (but pedicels gradually upward after fertilization and erect in fruit), actinomorphic, rarely slightly bilaterally symmetrical, single terminal or more arranged in racemes or umbels, with leaflike bracts; perianth moments rounded, subspatulate to nearly narrowly ovate, often conniving, with a sunken nectary nest near the base of the inner surface; 6 stamens, anthers nearly basifixed or dorsifixed, 2-loculed, dehiscent. Style 3-lobed or subindehiscent; stigma protruding beyond stamens; ovary 3-loculed, each locule with 2 longitudinal ovules, axile placenta. Capsule 6-angled, often winged on edges, loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds numerous, flattened, margin narrowly winged.

Fritillaria Persia