Yamase Yuri, also known as lily of the valley Convallaria majalis, bellflower. Smell sweet, whole plant poisonous. Perennial herb. Plants short, glabrous throughout, glabrous, with numerous branches and creeping rhizomes. Glossy. Each other in a sheath shape, with several membranous membranous scales at the base. Leaves elliptic or ovate lanceolate, flowers campanulate, pendulous, racemose, bracts lanceolate, membranous, style shorter than perianth. Autumn knot round dark red berries, toxic, with oval seeds, flat. Flower fruit period from 5 to July.
Lily of the valley native to temperate northern hemisphere, Europe, Asia and North America and Chinese of the northeast and North China area at an altitude of 850 to 2500 meters have a wild distribution.
Lily of the valley all grass can be used as medicine. After the summer fruit is ripe, harvest the whole grass, remove the soil, dry. Have a strong heart, diuretic effect. For congestive heart failure, atrial fibrillation, left heart failure caused by hypertension and nephritis. [1] but because of lily of the valley whole plant parts are highly toxic, do not take in the guidance of professional doctors under the condition. Toxic adverse reactions often manifested as abdominal pain, vomiting, decreased heart rate, blurred vision, dizziness, skin rash, etc.
Morphological feature editing
Lily is a perennial herb plant, all glabrous, 18-30 cm tall, often a growth. Leaves elliptic or ovate lanceolate, 7-20 cm long, 3-8.5 cm wide, apex acute, base cuneate; petiole 8-20 cm long.
Peduncle 15-30 cm tall, slightly curved; bracts lanceolate, shorter than pedicels; pedicel 6-15 mm long, near the top of the joints, fruit fall off from the joints when ripe; flowers white, 5-7 mm in length and width; lobes ovate triangular, apex acute, 1 veined; filaments slightly shorter than anthers. To expand the base, anthers nearly oblong; style column, 2.5-3 mm long. Berry 6-12 mm in diam., cooked red, slightly pendulous.
Seeds oblate or double convex surface, fine reticulate, diameter 3 mm. Florescence 5-6 month, fruit period 7-9 month.
Range editor
China Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Zhejiang and Hunan.
North Korea, Japan to Europe, North America is also very common.
Growth habit editing
Sex is fond of half shade, wet environment, good cool, avoid hot dry, cold resistant, the requirement is rich in humus loam and sandy loam. Born in shady damp or understory Mizobe, altitude 850 ~ 2500 meters.
Lily of the valley and clove cannot be put together, otherwise clove flowers rapid wilting, even 20 cm apart, such as the lily of the valley is removed, will restore clove;
Can lily of the valley and daffodils are put together, otherwise it will lose
