Narcissus

Narcissus (Tulipa), the genus of herbaceous perennial plant of the family Liliaceae. Bulb ovate, rarely oblong-ovate or rounded-ovate, scarious. The stem is cylindrical, erect, in height from 6 to 50 cm and have 2-6 leaves, ends a brightly colored flower (rarely a few flowers), the drop-down on a sunny day and closing at night and in cloudy weather. Fruit - 3-sided box, the seeds are flat, brownish-yellow. Cross-pollinated. Propagated by seed, in the culture - by seed and daughter bulbs, which are formed in the axils of the mother bulb scales. The genus of about 140 species growing mainly in Southern Europe, Malaya, East and Western Asia, the Soviet Union - 83 species, mostly in Central Asia, some species in the Caucasus, central and southern regions of European part, Siberia.

Cultivars (4000), originating from the wild T., unite in rallying species of T. gesneriaana. They differ in the form of a flower (cup-shaped, cupped, oval, spherical, lily, pionovidnaya, parrot, etc.) and color (all shades of red to almost black, orange, yellow, purple, white, variegated). There are varieties of aromatic and odorless. Duration of flowering of early varieties up to 15 days, late - 25-30 days. Depending on the time of flowering, stem height and shape of the flower varieties T. unite in groups: simple early (Mon Tresor, Ibis), terry early (Master van der Hoof, Murillo) Mendeleev (Ger Greyss, White Sale), Triumph (The Aviator , Algiba), cottage (Kleurenpraht, Orange King), Darwinian (Gladstone, Brittany), briderovskie (Don Pedro), Darwinian hybrids (Bolshoi Theater, parade, artist). The best varieties for distillation - Apricot Beauty, Dix Favorit, Olga, Aureula, virtuosos, etc.

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TV, including some wild species used in ornamental gardening and flower beds for spring rabatok, for cutting and distillation in the winter (see distillation plants). New TV were grown in 16. Turkey. In the early 17 century. brought to the Netherlands, where the breeding and selection of this plant have a mass character. In Russia, known to TV with 1702, but their bulbs are grown from the end of the 19. In the 70's. 20 at. T. cultivated in the Netherlands (the main exporter of onions), Great Britain, France, West Germany, East Germany. In the USSR Culture TV received a large development in connection with the modernization of cities and towns. Commercial cultivation of their focus on the North Caucasus, the Crimea, Central Asia, the Baltics, Moscow.

For T. preferable loamy, humus-rich soil. The bulbs are planted in the ground in autumn (September - November), the plants bloom in May - June.