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Copyright: JULIAN BERNAL (JulianJose)
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| Genre: Plants |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2008-10-12 |
| Categories: Flowers |
| Exposure: f/5.6, 1/250 seconds |
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| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2008-11-10 9:00 |
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Wikipedia:
Saxifraga longifolia, también conocida como corona de rey o altamira, es una especie de planta de flores perteneciente a la familia Saxifragaceae endémica del Pirineo calcáreo, a donde llegó durante las primeras glaciaciones hace un millón de años.
Es una planta perenne, compuesta por una gran roseta solitaria de hojas grisaceas lineales y espatuladas que mide entre 20 y 55 cm, careciendo casi por completo de tallo. Suele vivir incrustada en la fisuras y roquedos caliza y florece una vez en la vida con una vara de inflorescencias piramidales de más de 500 flores blancas moteadas en rojo de unos 9 a 11 mm. Florece entre los meses de mayo y agosto, floración tras la que la planta muere. Se extiende en altitudes de entre 500 y 2.500 m.
Su principal propiedad medicinal es la de ser un eficaz abortivo. Por ello se considera una planta muy peligrosa, pudiendo provocar incluso la muerte si las cantidades ingeridas son elevadas o si nuestro organismo se encuentra particularmente débil. La corona de rey es un remedio popular por los pastores en los partos difíciles del ganado, por sus propiedades abortivas.
The Latin word Saxifraga comes from Latin saxum, "rock", and frangere, "to break". These plants are known for their ability to settle in the cracks of rocks.
Saxifraga longifolia, also well-known as crown of king or altamira, is a species of plant of flowers pertaining to Pyrenean endemic the Saxifragaceae family of the calcareous one, at where it arrived during the first freezings does a million years. It is a perennial plant, composed by a great solitary rosette of off grey leaves linear and espatuladas that measures between 20 and 55 cm, lacking almost completely stem. Usually it lives inlaid in the rocky fissures and limestone and blooms once in the life with a twig of pyramidal inflorescencias of more than 500 speckled white flowers in red of about 9 to 11 mm Blooms between the months of May and August, flowering after which the plant dies. One extends in altitudes among 500 and 2,500 M.s Its main medicinal property is the one of being an effective abortifacient. For that reason a very dangerous plant is considered, being able to even bring about the death if the ingested amounts are lifted or if our organism is particularly weak. The king crown is a popular remedy by the shepherds in the difficult childbirths of the cattle, by its abortion properties.
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