Campanula Bologna is a herbaceous plant of the Campanaceae genus. Bell of Bologna is a herbaceous plant of the genus Campanulaceae Bell of Bologna is a herbaceous plant that has taken pride of place in the Red Book
There are over three hundred species of bells on the planet. Campanula Bolognese belongs to the Campanaceae family. In Latin, the name of the herbaceous plant is “Campanula bolonensis”. The flower lives in Europe, the Baltic states, Western Asia and the European part of Russia.
Mainly lives on forest edges, dry meadows, darkened ravines, bush thickets, and river bank areas. Italy is the homeland of Campanula, and the flower appeared in its culture at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Since then, the bell began to be used as an ornamental plant to decorate living spaces.
Bellflower Bolognese is a perennial herbaceous plant whose rhizome is relatively spindle-shaped and thickened.
The stem of the flower is straight, rough and weakly branched, the length of which reaches about seventy centimeters, while it bends towards the ground. The leaves of the bell have an ovoid-pointed shape.
It should be noted that the sky-blue inflorescences of Campanula are quite small, collected in a spicate raceme. Due to their abundance, they appear as drooping flowers on small stalks. The corolla of a plant can be:
- light blue;
- lilac;
- pinkish;
- lavender.
The fruits are like multi-seeded capsules. The flower cup has a round shape, blackish color, and five narrow triangular teeth.
The plant blooms in mid-summer and reproduces in the second half, usually through seeds. On sunny, windy days, the seed pods sway, thereby spreading them over long distances.
Pollination of flowers is carried out, as a rule, by bees and bumblebees, but there are cases with small insects that spend the night inside the inflorescences. Closer to night and in rainy weather, the plant closes its flowers.
Campanula Bolognese is a herbaceous plant that has taken pride of place in the Red Book.
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It should be noted that the flower is not only a honey plant, but also an ornamental plant. books from numerous subjects of the Russian Federation.
This is due to the fact that the plant is often collected in bouquets; cattle graze in the clearings; areas filled with flowers are built up and plowed. Because of their beauty, plants have taken pride of place in the golden fund of ornamental gardening.
The plant is protected on the territory of the Russian Light and Charozaresky NP reserves. To preserve the species, it is necessary to identify new achievements of the species and protect them.
This plant is extremely beautiful, which is why everyone wants to bring at least one flower to their home. In order to protect the herbaceous plant from extinction, it is necessary to recreate areas where it will be strictly forbidden to pick flowers.
Let each of us rejoice at such beauty and pass by. Among other things, it is worth prohibiting the plowing of land in those places where such a rare and outlandish flower lives.
Medicinal properties of bellflower
Campanula has a number of characteristic features that describe it as a healing plant. It is recommended to use the herb of this flower for medicinal purposes. The presence of truly healing properties is explained by the content in its composition:
- choline;
- vitamin C;
- anthocyanins;
- betaine;
- kaempferol and many other beneficial substances.
For epilepsy, it is worth using a remedy whose main ingredient is this type of bell. In order to prepare such a medicine, you need several tablespoons of the herbaceous plant in a ratio of two glasses of boiling water.
The resulting mixture is infused for several hours, after which it is filtered. The prepared product should be taken several times a day, a quarter of a glass.
It is worth noting that to achieve the greatest effectiveness when using the drug, you must carefully follow all the rules for its step-by-step preparation, as well as administration. Campanula has a number of anti-inflammatory substances, treats the nervous system and stomach disorders.
Diseases and pests that can damage campanula
The Bolognese bell is very resistant to diseases and pest attacks. When a plant is grown for a long time in the same area, it can be affected by fungal diseases.
As a preventive measure against fusarium, sclerotinia and other fungi, the ground and above-ground areas of the flower must be treated with foundationazole diluted in water.
Rooting of the root system can be caused by excessive soil moisture. Its prevention is possible if you perform periodic rational watering.
Of the pests, campanula is most often attacked by slugs, which can be eliminated by treatment with metaldehyde.
Operation of campanula in landscape design
Many types of bells tolerate shade well, so they become a decoration even for the most remote corners of the garden, creating an edge with plantings. Combinations of campanula with large white or dark purple flowers look very advantageous.
Being hardy, they form sky-blue patches peeking out among the stones, flowering lasts throughout the summer. Bells are able to grow even in small depressions between stones, since such an environment is close to their natural one.
As a rule, bells are capricious and prefer good lighting around them. However, if you grow them in decorative conditions, their care should be kept to a minimum. The main care requirements are:
- rational watering;
- preventive work on;
- application of mineral fertilizers.
This type of bell is a non-frost-resistant perennial plant, so during cold weather it needs to be covered with peat, spruce branches or dry leaves.
There is a story that talks about how, after spring, summer bursts into the forest. Listening to the songs of birds and smiling at the bright flowers left behind in the spring, spring rings with heavenly bells just blooming in a forest clearing.
The ringing of spring bells indicated the approach of the long-awaited summer. In the event that the bells have not yet arrived and summer has not bloomed, one should conclude that she is still the mistress of the forest.
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In the European part, bells have been used as a garden crop since time immemorial. Having all kinds of height and appearance of the bush, the color of the corolla and the size of the inflorescences, they have become close to the heart guests in our own gardens.
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Bellflower Bolognese is a perennial herbaceous plant of the bellflower family, the root is more or less spindle-shaped and thickened. The stem is straight, 70 cm long, rough, more or less pubescent, simple or weakly branched. Leaves are ovate, pointed; basal - petiolate; stem ones are sessile, the upper ones are stem-embracing. The flowers are quite small, 2-2.5 cm long, drooping, with very short pedicels, numerous, collected in a spike-shaped raceme; sometimes the inflorescence is somewhat branched, the corolla is blue-violet. Blooms in June-August.
Bellflower Bologna is found in Ukraine (Carpathians, Dnieper region), in Crimea, in the European part of Russia (Karelo-Murmansk, Dvinsko-Pechora, Zavolzhsky, Black Sea, Lower Don, Lower Volga regions), in Moldova, in the Caucasus (all areas except Dagestan), in Western Siberia (all regions except Ob), in Central Asia. It grows in dry meadows, forest edges, in bushes, up to the lower mountain zone. The grass is used for medicinal purposes.
Campanula Bologna contains kaempferol, quercetin, anthocyanins, alkaloids, choline, betaine, iridoids, vitamin C.
Decorative plant. Honey plant. Perganos. An infusion of the herb is drunk for epilepsy. A decoction and aqueous extract have antiulcer properties.
Method of preparation and use of Bell of Bolognese:
- 3 tablespoons of Bolognese bellflower herb per 2 cups of boiling water, leave for 1-2 hours, strain. Take 1/4-1/3 cup 3-4 times a day for epilepsy.
Short description. Perennial with a simple, less often weakly branched stem 40-120 cm high. Leaves are entire, finely toothed, from ovate to broadly lanceolate, with thin felt below, basal petiolate, stem sessile, upper half-stem-complex. The inflorescence is a spike-shaped raceme with numerous drooping light blue or bluish-purple flowers on short pedicels. The calyx is pubescent or bare, with ciliated lobes curved along the edge. Corolla bell-shaped, 1.3-1.7 cm long. The length of the column is equal to the corolla. The fruits are drooping, multi-seeded, opening at the base of the capsule.
Spreading. In the Leningrad region. is located on the northern border of the range and is found only in the Boksitogorsk region: near lake. Strugskoto in the vicinity village of Struga and in the valley of the river. Chagoda (near the villages of Klimovo, Turandino and Usadite). Found in the region only in 1992 (I). In Russia, it is also found in the European part, except for the Arctic and the north of the forest zone, in the Caucasus and Western Siberia. Outside Russia, it is distributed in central and southern Europe, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, northwestern Kazakhstan, Transcaucasia and Central Asia.
Ecology and biology. Usually lives in dry, often calcareous meadows, forest clearings and edges, in thickets of bushes, alone or in small (up to 10 individuals) groups. Sometimes found on sand along the sides of forest and country roads, along the edges of abandoned fields. From 1993 to 1998 there were noticeable fluctuations in numbers with a maximum in 1998 (2). Blooms from June to August.
Limiting factors. Locations near populated areas may be destroyed as a result of collecting plants for bouquets. Other anthropogenic impacts are also important: plowing of meadows, their development and burning.
Security measures. It is necessary to monitor the state of populations and create protected areas in places where the species grows.
Information sources: Rumyantseva. Ivanova. 1998: 2. Author's data. E. E. Rumyantseva
Status. 3(R). Rare.
Description. Perennial with simple, sometimes weekly branched stem 40-120 cm tall. Leaves entire, denticulate, ovate to broad-lanceolate, with thin tomentum beneath, radical petiolate, cauline sessile, uppermost semiamplexicaul. Inflorescence a spiciform raceme with numerous nodding light blue or bluish-mauve flowers on short pedicels. Calyx pilose or glabrous, with divergent lobes ciliate at margins. Corolla campanulate. 13- 17 mm long. Style as long as corolla. Capsules nodding, many-seeded, dehiscent at the base.
Distribution. The species has the northern limit of its range in the Leningrad region and occurs only in Boksitogorsk district on Lake Strugskoye near Strugi ^ and in the valley of the river Chagoda (near Klimovo, Turandino and Usadishche). Known from the region only since 1992 (1). In Russia also in the European part, except the Arctic regions and the north of the forest zone, the Caucasus and West Siberia. Outside Russia occurs in Central and Southern Europe, the Ukraine. Moldova, Belarus, north-western Kazakhstan, Transcaucasia and Middle Asia.
Ecology and biology. Usually in dry meadows often on limestone, forest clearings and on forest margins and at thickets, solitary or in small (up to 10 plants) groups. Sometimes occurs on sand on forest margins and country" roads, and margins of abandoned fields. From 1993 to 1998, distinct fluctuations of the populations were observed, with a maximum in 1998 (2). Flowers from June to August.
Limiting factors. Could disappear from localities close to populated areas can as a result of collection of plants for bouquets. Other human activities are also of significance: plowing of meadows, building and trampling.
Conservation measures. Monitoring of populations and organization of protected areas in the species localities required.
Sources of information: I. Rumyantseva. Ivanova, 1998; 2. Author's data. E. E. Rumyantseva
JOURNEY THROUGH THE RED BOOK
BELL OF BOLOGNA
Prepared by Arina Ivanova
4"B" class school No. 342
Bells come in different varieties: blue, light purple, dark purple. Their flowers resemble miniature bells. Hence the Russian name.
The rarest bell of our flora is the BELL OF BOLOGNA. It is he who is included in the Red Book.
DESCRIPTION
Campanula Bolognese- a herbaceous perennial plant from 50 cm to 120 cm in height with a simple pubescent stem.
Flowers, looking down, are located on short pedicels.
Calyx rounded, with five triangularly deviated teeth.
Leaves rough, dark green above, whitish-velvety below, Inflorescence- a spike-shaped raceme with numerous flowers on short stalks. Fruit- spherical multi-seeded capsules.
Grows in dry meadows, forest edges and clearings, in thickets of bushes, in the steppes. Flowers are most often pollinated by bees and bumblebees. The flowers of the plant close at night and in rain.
Blooms in June - July, bears fruit in July - August. Reproduces mainly by seeds. In sunny weather, the wind swings the boxes and carries the seeds over long distances.
SPREADING
The homeland of this plant is Italy.
In the Leningrad region it is located on the northern border and is found only in the Boksitogorsk region: near Lake Strugskoye and in the valley of the Chagoda River.
USE
Thanks to the beauty of their color, bellflowers have entered the golden fund of ornamental gardening. The herb (stem and leaves) is used for medicinal purposes. The plant contains anti-inflammatory substances, vitamins B and C.
An infusion of the herb is drunk for various diseases of the nervous system and gastric disorders.
Blue bells are ringing, as if they are telling everyone that the long-awaited summer has finally come, has arrived." If the bells have not yet bloomed, it means that spring is still the mistress of the forest. Well, if the first blue bell flower appears, then summer has already come .
There is a fairy tale that talks about how, after spring, summer comes to the forest: “Summer walks through the forest, listens to the ringing songs of birds, smiles at the bright flowers that spring has left behind, and quietly rings the blue bells that have just bloomed in the forest.” forest clearing.
is one of the plants of the family called bellflowers, in Latin the name of this plant will be as follows: Campanula bolonensis L. As for the name of the Bolognese bell family itself, in Latin it will be like this: Campanulaceae Juss.
Description of Campanula Bolognese
Campanula bolognese is a perennial herbaceous plant, the root of which will be more or less spindly thickened. The stem of this plant is straight, its length can reach seventy centimeters. Such a stem will be rough, simple or weakly branched, and also more or less pubescent. The leaves of the Campanula Bolognese will be ovate and pointed, the basal leaves will be petiolate, the stem leaves will be sessile, and the upper ones will be stem-encompassing. It is worth noting that the flowers of this plant are quite small, their length is two to two and a half centimeters. Such flowers are drooping, they are numerous, endowed with very short pedicels and collected in a spike-shaped raceme. It should be noted that sometimes the inflorescence of the Bolognese bell can be somewhat branched, and the corolla itself will be colored in blue-violet tones. This plant blooms from June to August. Under natural conditions, this plant is found in the European part of Russia, in Crimea, in the Dnieper region and in the Carpathians in Ukraine, as well as in Central Asia, Moldova, the Caucasus and Western Siberia. For growth, the Bolognese bell prefers forest edges, thickets of bushes, dry meadows up to the lower mountain zone. It should be noted that this plant is not only a honey plant and perganos, but also a very ornamental plant.Description of the medicinal properties of the bell of Bologna
The Bolognese bell is endowed with very valuable healing properties, and it is recommended to use the herb of this plant for medicinal purposes.The presence of such valuable healing properties should be explained by the content of choline, vitamin C, iridoids, kaempferol, anthocyanins, alkaloids, and quercetin in this plant. An infusion of the Campanula bolognese herb is recommended to be drunk for epilepsy. The decoction, as well as the aqueous extract of this plant, is endowed with very valuable anti-ulcer properties.
For epilepsy, it is recommended to use the following remedy based on this plant: to prepare such a remedy, you will need to take three tablespoons of Campanula bolognese herb per two glasses of boiling water. It is recommended to infuse the resulting mixture for about one to two hours, after which this mixture based on the bell of Bolognese should be very carefully filtered. Take the resulting remedy three to four times a day, one-third or one-fourth of a glass. It should be noted that in order to achieve the greatest effectiveness when using this healing remedy based on this plant, it is recommended to carefully not only follow all the rules for preparing such a remedy, but also strictly follow all the rules for taking this remedy based on the bell of Bolognese.
It should be noted that this plant is listed in the Red Book. The reason for this phenomenon is considered to be the collection of the Bolognese bell in bouquets, the driving and grazing of livestock, the plowing and development of the territory in which this plant grows.
It is noteworthy that the homeland of the marsh bell is Italy, and this plant has existed in culture since the nineteenth century. It was from then on that this plant began to be used as a decorative plant to decorate various rooms.
