What violet is called pansies, a photo of a flower and features of care

Are pansies like violets or not? Due to the abundant flowering in early spring, many amateur gardeners, among other flowers, buy several packages with different pansies. For this, they are planted in two terms, replacing them subsequently with pilots.

This carpet of velvet petals of different shades pleases the eye of both residents of the northern and southern regions of Russia. Is it difficult to grow such beauty in your personal garden?

History of occurrence

It is not known for certain when and how pansies appeared. There are many legends about the origin of this flower.but which of them are true and which are not is unknown. Already during the reign of the Gods on Earth, they were already.

Once the goddess Venus decided to swim away from human eyes. She found a hidden corner in a distant grotto. She splashed in the water for a long time, and suddenly she heard a rustling sound. Turning around, she saw several eyes of curious mortals.

Venus was angry and punished them for their curiosity. Unable to punish them on her own, she turned to Zeus for help, who at the last moment changed his mind and turned the curious into pansies.

In Germany, pansies are called stepmother. This name was invented by chance.

The lower petal is the largest and most beautiful. It symbolizes a dressed-in stepmother. The other two, which are located a little higher, are beautifully dressed daughters, but the last two remaining are stepdaughters in poor robes.

The tradition has survived. At first, the stepmother was upstairs, and the stepdaughters downstairs. That was until God intervened. He took pity on the stepdaughters, turned the flower over. The stepmother had a spur, and the daughters had a mustache.

General description of tricolor violet

Three-colored violet - plant with an erect, thin and branched stem with a height of 10-20 cm. The arrangement of leaves is another. Their shape is round and heart-shaped. Large lyre-shaped stipules adjoin them.

Stem leaves are sessile, and the lower ones are petiolate. On long pedicels, single, large flowers with an irregular shape are revealed. They reach a diameter of 3.5 cm. One corolla is formed by five petals that do not repeat each other in shape.

The lowest petal is white or yellow. It is larger than the two upper blue-violet or dark violet in color and than the two light violet side lobes.

Is this plant annual or perennial?

Pansies are perennials. Most amateur gardeners buy two- or annual plants in stores. Why not perennial? The fact is that over the years, the once beautiful flower loses its beauty and originality. He is aging after 3 years. Because of this, the buds become smaller, and over time they do not form at all.

Photo

Next, you can find a photo of tricolor violet or pansy:

Appearance

What does an annual or biennial land grass plant look like?

Root

Pansies brown, thin, branched, unbranched root. It penetrates the earth almost steeply.

Stem

It is also branchy. He is trihedral. The stem is either pubescent or bare. Hair bent down. Inside it is hollow. Its height is 10-30, occasionally 45 cm. Sometimes several creeping and erect stems depart from one root.

Leaves

The next leaf arrangement. They are petiolate. They can be either naked or scattered-hairy along the veins. The shape of the lower leaves is broadly egg-shaped. Petioles are long.

The upper leaves look different. They already have an oblong-lanceolate shape. On them petioles are already short. Each leaf has two stipules. Their shape is pinnate lyre-shaped. They are longer than leaf petioles in their length.

Flower

Frontal simple brush is a type of inflorescence. In due time, zygomorphic flowers appear on the peduncles of pansies. Peduncles come out individually from the leaf sinuses. In the upper part of the peduncles, very close to the flower, there are two small bracts.

A cup of flower form five leaves. It does not fall after flowering. The shape of the leaves is elongated-lanceolate, pointed. They are softly hairy. The lower sepals are larger than the upper ones. Corollas are collected from five free petals.

The color is dominated by blue and its various shades. All the petals that form the flower are of various shapes and sizes. There are many legends about the flowers and their color, but the pansies as they are are beautiful, unique and memorable.

The number of stamens is five. They are pressed to the pestle. They come in contact with anthers with stamens, which are short and barely noticeable. The flower has one pistil.

Seeds and fruits

After the pansies bloom, a fetus will form. It is a box of greenish color with a length of up to ten millimeters. Seeds in it are located close to the walls. A cup surrounds the box. When it is fully ripe, three wings will open and the seeds will fall out.

The seeds are small. Their length is 1.25-1.75 mm, and their width and thickness are 0.75-1 mm. Their form is obovate. There is a small appendage. They are either light yellow or light brown. With early planting of pansies, they bloom early and throw the first seeds in June.

In one box there can be up to 3 thousand seeds with a total weight of 1.5 g. If you collect the seeds and arrange for proper storage, they will retain their germination capacity up to 2 years.

Read more about how to grow the pansy violet, as well as the basic rules for planting and caring for a flower, read in our material.

The most popular varieties

There are two categories of plant varieties. The first is large-flowered, and the second is small-flowered. Amateur gardeners buy large-flowered pansies. They make a mistake since small-flowered varieties are stronger and more hardy. They are not afraid of rains, temperature changes.

Three types of plants are distinguished: three-colored violet, yellow violet and Altai violet. Breeders have created many varieties and varietal groups, taking as a basis the above types.

Small flowered

1. Blue boy. This variety has a small flower. Its diameter is 3-4 cm, and its color is blue-blue.
2. Snow Maiden. The diameter of the flower is small - up to 4 centimeters, and the buds themselves are snow-white.
3. Red Riding Hood. A variety with flowers of bright red color up to four centimeters.

Large flowered

1. Evening heat. Pansies of this variety have large beautiful flowers. On a 10-centimeter peduncle, flowers with a diameter of 5.5 cm hold well. They are not very bright, but the lack of brightness compensates for the unusual wavy edge. The bush grows up to 15 cm in height.
2. Ice king. This plant is stretched to a height of 20 cm. White flowers with a greenish tint appear on it in due time. Violet spots are visible on the lower petals.
3. Winter sun. These pansies have bright yellow flowers. The lower petals are decorated with velvet dark brown spots. The height of one bush is 20 cm, and the length of the peduncle is 10 cm.

Gigantic

1. Golden yellow. The flowers reach a diameter of 7 cm. They are plain and their color is golden yellow.
2. White. The color of the buds is white with a visible yellowish-greenish tint. The edges of the petals are wavy.
3. Blue. The buds are purple and blue. Their edges are even. A 7-centimeter flower holds well on an 11-centimeter peduncle.

Healing properties

Three-colored violet has healing healing properties due to its extraordinary composition. It contains ascorbic acid, coumarins, salicylic acid, tannins, saponins, tannins, essential oils, violocercitrin, etc. The richness of the composition determines the effective help in diseases.

What effect does the body have?

• Expectorant.
• Diuretic.
• Anti-inflammatory.
• Antibacterial and antimicrobial.
• Antispasmodic.
• Choleretic.
• Sweatshops.
• Cleansing blood.
• Soothing.
• Relieves itching.
• Healing wounds.

Teas, infusions and decoctions are prepared from the plant so that the person recovers faster. Along with them take traditional medicines. It is recommended to treat diseases of the respiratory system with infusions and decoctions of pansies (e.g., bronchial disease, tuberculosis, pneumonia).

With a runny nose and sinusitis, nose drops made from a plant help. In newborns, itching and inflammation occurs after mosquito bites. Traditional medicine from tricolor violets has been coping with them for a long time.

To cure severe diathesis in a child, prepare an infusion:

1. Take four parts of a string and violets and one part of bittersweet nightshade.
2. All components are mixed.
3. 10 grams of herbal harvest pour 250 ml of boiling water.
4. Two hours after infusion, take the infusion inside.

The dose is 15 ml, and the frequency of administration is 5 times a day. Infusion is added to the bath when washing the baby.

Taking decoctions from it inside, they struggle with nervous strain, insomnia, overwork, irritability and anxiety. It helps people with arthritis and dermatitis, gout and eczema.. Doctors recommend tricolor violet grass in patients with severe cough, vitamin deficiency, polyarthritis, and skin diseases.

It is taken orally by women who have given birth, in whom uterine bleeding does not stop. Decoctions and infusions will help patients with the following diagnoses: asthma, hernia, scrofula, arthritis.

What do they symbolize?

Pansies - a symbol of devotion, fidelity and wisdom. Since they first bloom after the snow melts in the spring, they symbolize spring.

Legend of the flower

Many legends have formed not only about the flower, but also about its origin. An old belief says that once the girl Anyuta showed excessive curiosity, becoming interested in the details of someone else's life. They turned her into a flower as a punishment. The Romans believed that the flower appeared because of the wrath of Venus on men peeping at her bathing.

They laid down their legends in Russia. Because of love, the girl Anyuta turned into a flower because of love. She fell in love with a young man, and he reciprocated her feelings. Since he was from a wealthy family, his parents insisted on marrying another, more affluent girl. Annie could not stand his betrayal and weakness. She died.

There was another girl, Anyuta, who sent her fiancé to war, with which he did not return. She looked through all her eyes, peering into the distance, and so she died without waiting. At the place where she was waiting for him, a flower of marvelous beauty and extraordinary blossomed.

And a very scary story in the end. In one village there lived a girl, Anyuta. She was kind and gullible. Once a young handsome man looked into her village. The girl did not resist him, trusted him, and he deceived her. He promised to return for her, but did not return.

Annie soon died of longing, and marvelous flowers blossomed on her grave, similar to her unusual eyes. In them were white (mutual feelings), and yellow (surprise at the deed), and purple (collapsed hopes and sadness) spots.

Conclusion

Pansies are a beautiful flower about which legends and traditions compose. He has not only unusual buds with multi-colored spots, depending on the variety. He is a true helper in diseases when traditional medicine is less effective.

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