English
name:
yellow foxgloves ou Carillon temple bells
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Own
language name: Digitale à grande fleurs
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Description:
A bisannuel plant with an erect and unbranched stem , 30 to 120 cm
high.he leaves are lanceolate, up to 25 cm long, with toothed margin.
The flowers are large, in a long spike, the corolla is tubular, yellow
on the outside, mottled braun on the inside. Flowers from june to
augustus,the fruit is a capsule
Distribution:
Belgium
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only
in
Wallonie.
Mosan and ardennais districts
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Habitat:
lightly
forest, thermophile, coupe claire,
falow land.
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Report about the
reasons of the risk: uprooting
by collectors, deterioration in reaping
of the environment
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Categoria IUCN: 1, CR, critically endangered
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Possible solutions: protection
of
the thermophile forests and of the edges
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Culinary
and/or medicinal properties:
medicinal
properties : used in pharmaceutical industries.Digitalis contains
cardio-tonic glucosides very effective.So it is used in cardiology.
To eat fresh plant may be deadly.
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Appearance in
the Literature and Arts:
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Plant
detail of the flower
Plant
detail of the flower at higher
magnification
Plant with fruits
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