Snowdrop folded

Who hasn’t admired the beauty of the first flowers that appear after the winter cold? Of course, everyone is delighted with such a flower as folded snowdrop.

This flower received its name due to its white color, since when translated from ancient Greek, “snowdrop” means milky-flowered. These wonderful flowers can literally grow from under the snow.

In the family of snowdrops there are 18 typesin, which are common in Southern or Central Europe, the Caucasus, Asia Minor and Crimea. These are low bulbous plants that have two linear leaves 10-20 cm long - they appear simultaneously with peduncles. The folded snowdrop or any other type of snowdrop has beautiful delicate single flowers - they are drooping and bell-shaped. The perianth consists of six leaflets, the fruit is a capsule. The bulbs of this plant are conical or ovoid.

Even from school age, everyone is explained that this plant is introduced to the Red Book, and its barbaric destruction is very dangerous. But, despite warnings, every year these beautiful flowers are destroyed for the sake of sales. That is why in many areas the snowdrops have already all been destroyed.

If you don’t want these wonderful flowers to disappear from our planet, take care of their existence. And if you want to buy this plant, then buy it with roots and start propagating them. Snowdrops reproduce remarkably well by dividing the tubers. There is no doubt that the plants in the flowerbed look very noble and natural, and most importantly, they do not wither for a long time, compared to plucked snowdrops.