Glory bells

The splendor of bells (Enkianthus) are a genus of the family of the heather family (Ericaceae) with twelve to 14 species in eastern Asia (eastern Himalayas, China including Taiwan, Japan, Indochinese peninsula). Enkianthus is considered the most primitive genus of the heather family and put in an own (monogenerische) subfamily Enkianthoideae.

Description

The genus consists of deciduous, rarely evergreen shrubs and small trees. They are alternate in tufts at the ends of the branches arranged leaves stalked, simple, with serrated or nearly smooth leaf edge.

Which are usually too many in terminal inflorescences doldigen or schirmtraubigen, only a few species, the flowers, either singly or in pairs. The shape of the corolla width ranges from bell-to krugförmig, the Corolla lobe are always short.

In the case of the stamens, which are two circles and much shorter than the Crown, the filaments are flat and widened at the base. opens at the oblong anthers, each of the slit at the top begrannten counters.

Unlike many other ericaceous the pollen grains not combined into tetrads. The oberständige ovary, with truncated scar has few ovules per carpel.

It is made of an oval, Lokulizide fruit capsule, in which the number of mature seeds can be reduced down to one. The seeds are usually winged.



Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prachtglocken

See Also: International Flower Delivery, Florist