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European cyclamen

Perennial low herbaceous plant. The rhizome is tuberous, weighing up to 60 g, brown on the outside, with numerous thin roots below. The stems are thin, leafless, ending at the top with one leaf or one flower. Stems with flowers are generally longer than stems with basal leaves. The leaves are traditionally wintering, heart-shaped or reniform in shape, with

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Tsibulya peremozhna – victorious bow

Victory onion (AIIiit victohale); cherry; the Tsibulev family (AIIiaseae); victory bow  This is a perennial herbaceous bulbous plant with the smell of garlic. The bulbs of the plant are long, covered with a net shell. The stem is straight, leafless, up to 40 cm tall. The leaves are basal, elliptic-lanceolate, resemble lily of the valley leaves, petiolate, 2-3 of them

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Tsibulya gorodnya – onion

Garden onion is one of the oldest cultivated spicy and tasty plants. It was known more than 4 thousand years BC. e. in Central, South and North-East Asia (modern Iran, Afghanistan, India and China). A few centuries before our era, the plant appeared in Egypt, and then in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. In Western Europe, onions were first

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Bear’s onion – bear’s onion

Perennial herbaceous bulbous plant of the lily family. The bulb is oblong, 2-5 cm long, wrapped in transparent whitish shells. The stem (flower arrow) is leafless, straight, (15)-20-40 cm high, trihedral or semi-cylindrical, full, longer than the leaves, rarely of the same length, in the underground part wrapped in sheaths of leaves. The leaves (2 of them, rarely

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Bear onion

BEAR ONION —   Allium ursinum L. The bulbous family is Alliaceae, or the lily family is Liliaceae   What does it look like? Perennial plant 15-30 cm tall. Its underground part forms a bulb, with a sharp characteristic smell of a volatile oil that contains sulfur – allicin. The stem is covered with smooth purple sheaths of

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Cetraria Icelandic, Icelandic moss

Cetraria Icelandic, Icelandic moss   perennial foliate-bushy lichen 10-15 cm high with a multi-lobed branched greenish-brown thallus attached to the soil or to the bark of trees, stumps with the help of rhizoids. The thallus at the base is narrowed, grooved or tubular folded, with grooved or almost flat, ciliated lobes bare along the edge. The latter

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Cetraria Icelandic

Cetraria Icelandic (Icelandic moss)   Thallus in the form of greenish-brown erect bushes, hard and brittle when dry. The lobes of the thallus are flat or grooved-folded, sometimes almost tubular, narrow or wide, seated along the edges with small dark cilia; on the lower side they are lighter, covered with whitish specks-mu-nuls, on the upper side they

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Cetraria Icelandic

Cetraria Icelandic is a lichen representing the Parmeliaceae family (Parmeliaceae). Other names: Icelandic moss, dry moss, prickly moss. Description: Thallus in the form of greenish-brown erect bushes, hard and brittle when dry. The lobes of the thallus are flat or grooved-folded, sometimes almost tubular, narrow or wide, seated along the edges with small dark cilia; on the lower side they

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