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phyteuma
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Copyright: Oana Otilia Saracutu (oanaotilia) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 308 W: 19 N: 506] (1680)
Genre: Plants
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-07-31
Categories: Flowers, Mountain
Exposure: f/8, 1/80 seconds
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Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-11-17 4:00
Viewed: 718
Points: 8
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Phyteuma is a genus of about 40-45 species of flowering plants in the family Campanulaceae, native to Europe and western Asia. The common name is Rampion. Rampion features prominently in some versions of the story of Rapunzel. In the Grimm's brothers' fairy tale "Rapunzel" it is noted that "rapunzel" is the name given to a local form of rampion.


The species are herbaceous perennial plants, growing to 5-90 cm tall. The leaves are alternate, petiolate, and vary in shape on a single plant, with larger, broader leaves at the base of the stem and smaller, narrower leaves higher up; the leaf margin is serrated. The flowers are produced in dense erect panicles, each flower with a narrow, deeply five-lobed corolla, 1-2 cm or more long), mostly purple, sometimes pale blue, white or pink. The fruit is a capsule containing numerous small seeds.

Selected species

* Phyteuma balbisii
* Phyteuma betonicifolium
* Phyteuma charmelii
* Phyteuma comosum
* Phyteuma confusum
* Phyteuma globulariifolium
* Phyteuma hemisphaericum
* Phyteuma humile
* Phyteuma michelii
* Phyteuma nigrum - Black Rampion
* Phyteuma orbiculare - Round-headed Rampion
* Phyteuma ovatum
* Phyteuma pauciflorum
* Phyteuma pedemontanum
* Phyteuma scheuchzeri
* Phyteuma sieberi
* Phyteuma spicatum - Spiked Rampion
* Phyteuma tenerum
* Phyteuma vagneri
* Phyteuma zahlbruckneri

http://www.kuleuven-kortrijk.be/bioweb/?lang=nl&detail=925

http://rhododendron.ngo.ro/calimani.htm

I don't nkow exaclty what species is this, in my heart I will say that is P. wagnery, an rare plant that grows only in the mountains higher than 2000m. But olso could be one more common species.
I took this picture this summer, in the Calimani Mountains, aproximatly at 2000 m altitude, on one "side" = slope of the mountain chain, near Pietrosu Peak.
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Hi Oana!

I didn't know this subspecies of the "Rapunzel" as we call this flower in Swiss German. Here, in the Swiss Alps, we can see the Phyteuma flower quite often, but I didn't know this one. Thank you for sharing it with us!

Kind regards

Markus

Hi Oana ,
Nice capture with good BG.
Details is great too.
Regards

This is a new one for me in this sate.... Very nicely done almost has a goth look to it..I like goth for it's richness in spirit..nothing religious..just your everyday goth:-)
Bob

Bonjour Oana,
Très belle macro très finement détaillée.
A bientôt sur TN pour de nouvelles aventures.
Gérard

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  • cosmln Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor [C: 201 W: 12 N: 493] (1952)
  • [2008-11-22 23:54]

Buna Oana,

chiar este Phyteuma vagneri. pe langa alte caracatere acea culoare inchisa ii este caracteristica. si pe aici in Retezat se gaseste.
frumos izolata si detalii placute.

o zi frumoasa,
cosmln

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