Wednesday, June 17, 2009

pink wintergreen pyrola

this plant cal be up to 10-20 cm tall grows in mild latitudes, and has several flowers on one base, the leaves surround an bunch near the base of the plan.
pink colored bells hang form several stems, the leaves maintain color all year long.
grows in forest mainly, this plant is also known as bog wintergreen
it Isa mainly a Ornamental plant which is admired for smell an decoration.

reproduce by pollen in the antenna stems inside the flowers.
The roots of Pink Wintergreen and other species of the genus Pyrola have symbiotic associations with soil fungi.
like mushrooms an lynches.
Because of the resemblance of the basal leaves of this plant to the leaves of a Pear Tree, Linnaeus gave it the name "Pyrola", a diminutive of "Pyrus", the Pear Tree.
bllom in june though august.

1 comment:

  1. Good start! Please review the directions & edit this to include what is missing before Monday's deadline.

    What are lynches? I'm not familiar with that term except when used as in "lynching mob".

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