Mormons tulips

The Mormons tulips (Calochortus) are a genus of the lily family (Liliaceae). There are about 60-73 species. The botanical genus name Calochortus is derived from the Greek and means roughly "beautiful grass.

Description

Calochortus species are perennial herbaceous plants. These onions are geophytes as Überdauerungsorgane. On the upright stems are at most very small leaves. The main undergraduate and alternate leaves are sessile standing, ruler, simple, flat, parallelnervig and entire.

The flowers are in terminal, simple or branched, spiciform inflorescences with bracts. The long-stalked, but somewhat flowers are hermaphrodite and triadic. There are two circles, each with three free bracts present.

In some species, the bracts of both parties are conformation, in many species they are significantly different in shape and size. Nectar glands located at the base of the inner bracts.

Often the bracts are dotted. If they differ, then the outer bracts are often narrow, smooth, green or sometimes have the same color as the interior.

The inner bracts are often nailed, fringed, hairy, come in colors yellow, pink to red, and often before they are patterned. There are two circles, each with three fertile stamens present, they are always free with each other, but they can adherent to the base of the bracts.

Three carpels are fused into a oberständigen ovary. Each of the three chambers ovary contains 30-50 ovules. Style can be seen often do not, if they exist, they are much shorter than the ovary. The stigma is trilobed. The upright, bursting capsule fruits are three-bladed. The seeds are usually flattened.



Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calochortus

See Also: International Flower Delivery, Florist