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Topic Categories: Frankfurt through My Eye • Image of the Day • My Pictures • Nature • Photography
Posted on: March 12, 2010 2:59 PM, by "GrrlScientist"
tags: PalmenGarten, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, PalmenGarten Blüte, flowers, nature, environment, image of the day
Here's another pretty flower blossom that I photographed growing in the lawn at PalmenGarten. The flower resembles a buttercup but I am certain it's a different species .. can you tell me what it might be?
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Comments
It looks very much like Winter Aconite. They've just started blooming here in Chicago (buds are ready to open, but not yet open). How's the weather in Frankfurt am Main versus Chicago?
Posted by: Martin | March 12, 2010 3:11 PM
Yes. It is Winter Aconite (Eranthis). The usual one in cultivation is Eranthis hyemalis.
Posted by: Stewart Hinsley | March 12, 2010 3:58 PM
Yes, that's a winter aconite (Eranthis, I'm not sure what species). It's a close relative of buttercups (Ranunculus). One way that the relationship's obvious is the distinctive glossy gleam on the yellow petals. At least around here, that makes buttercup-kin unmistakable, although I suppose that somewhere in the world there may be other plants that have independently come up with the same shiny petals.
Posted by: Vasha | March 12, 2010 4:01 PM
Well you won't go wrong with "Winter Aconite", but hyemalis is not the only possibility- although it is the only one of the eight or so species of Eranthis native to Europe, there are many in cultivation
Eranthis albiflora is, as the specific epithet suggests, a white-flowered species, as are E. pinnatifida, E. sibirica, and E. stellata...
although yellow-blooming, E. longistipitata has needle-like leaves as so would be out of contention here...
however E. cilicica is very similar to hyemalis and although native to southwestern Asia, is quite popular in European bulb gardens... hybrids between hyemalis and cilicica (I think labelled as E. x tubergenii) are also widely available to alpine gardeners and are yellow too...
Eranthis albiflora
Eranthis cilicica
Eranthis stellata
Eranthis x tubergenii
can't think of any more but as hyemalis and cilicica are often sold as the other, and as Frankfurt is really considered northern Europe and therefore out of the native range of hyemalis, I suppose it could be either or even the hybrid...
(the eighth species is lobulata from western China, but I have never seen it)
Posted by: David Hilmy | March 12, 2010 6:00 PM
In German: Winterling.
Posted by: Hollricher | March 14, 2010 5:56 AM