#celandine — Public Fediverse posts

The greater #celandine #Chelidonium #majus (#Papaveraceae) is native to Eurasia and is sometimes treated as a weed. However, it possesses significant #pharmaceutical properties due to the #alkaloids it contains, making it of interest for basic research. Consequently, T.E. Samatadze et al. (2020) have #characterized it #agromorphologically, #microanatomically, and molecular-#cytogenetically.
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The greater #celandine (#Chelidonium #majus) prefers #nitrogenrich #soils and tends to be #thermophilic. In Germany, it grows in #parks and along roadsides. #Seeddispersal occurs via #myrmecochory; #ants are #attracted by means of a #lure (an #elaiosome). In the case of C. majus, this takes the form of a fleshy outgrowth (a #caruncle).
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Lesser #celandine

This cheerful little yellow flower can be found on path edges and woodland floors in early spring. It’s a perennial herb in the buttercup family, with glossy, dark-green, heart-shaped leaves. Often growing in damp areas such as the banks of streams and ditches, it flowers between January and April and is an important source of nectar for queen bumblebees and other early pollinators coming out of hibernation.

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William Wordsworth loved them and wrote three poems about them: To the Small Celandine, To the Same Flower, and The Small Celandine. When he died it was proposed that a celandine be carved on his memorial plaque inside St Oswald's Church, Grasmere, but the flower carved thereon is actually a greater celandine.

10 facts about celandines.

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2025/02/21-february-celandine.html

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📷 a single yellow flower :: a small green pot #Hipstography #Photography #Celandine

This was one of the first #flowers to start flowering this spring. There was a massive patch of #Lesser #Celandine (#Ranunculus #ficaria) which had burst into #bloom.

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The Lesser #Celandine was #Blooming.

The #Scots called the #Flower the #Yellow #Swan - probably because they bloomed when the whopper swans were migrating.

As a floriographer, Ina knew those yellow blossoms had another meaning, and when she saw the Celandine #Garland over the door, the message was clear: time to flit.

The Scots also thought the flowers brought good #Luck because they looked like little #Gold #Coins. But Ina wasn't so sure...

#November 22, 1900
#OTD #Science & #Flowers: Study of the One Does Not Destroy the Love of the Other appeared in The Indianapolis News.

"Must the scientific sense blunt the #Aesthetic one?
Pistils & stamens, nectaries & receptacles - don't always go well with artless talk about sweet #Blooms & bright #Berries.
Flowers are inextricably woven about human life.
When will the #Artist be tired of painting the children in the meadows with their laps full of #Cowslips or #Celandine?"

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