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APG-Fam.: Asparagacae / Asparagus Fam.       Fam. tradit.: Liliaceae / Lily Fam.  

Genus:  Polygonatum  MILL.
 

Authors:
   L.:  Carl von Linné (Linnaeus, 1707 - 1777), Swedish naturalist who introduced the binary naming system for plants and animals
   ALL.:  Carlo Allioni (1728 - 1804), Italian physician and botanist
   MILL.:  Philip Miller (1691 - 1771), English gardener
 

Etymology:
   Polygonatum:   polys = many, gony = knee (rhizome)
   multiflorum:   many-flowered
 

On the distinction of the Polygonatum species:
Only Polygonatum odoratum has single flowers; the other species have groups of 2 to 5 flowers at the flower position. Polygonatum verticillatum has narrow leaves, the other two multi-flowered species have oval leaves. ( Polygonatum latifolium, whose stems and sometimes also the undersides of the leaves are hairy, occurs only in Eastern Europe (in Austria only in the Pannonicum), while Polygonatum multiflorum with its hairless stems and leaves occurs throughout Europe. Fig. 10 explains the German name 'Weißwurz' of the genus which would be translated as 'white root'.

 

Polygonatum multiflorum / Solomon's Seal, D Bürstadt 15.5.2006
Fig. 1:  Polygonatum multiflorum / Solomon's Seal
D Bürstadt 15.5.2006
Polygonatum multiflorum / Solomon's Seal, D Bürstadt 15.5.2006
Fig. 2:  Polygonatum multiflorum / Solomon's Seal
D Bürstadt 15.5.2006
Polygonatum multiflorum / Solomon's Seal, D Zwingenberg an der Bergstraße 4.5.2025
Fig. 3:  Polygonatum multiflorum / Solomon's Seal
D Zwingenberg an der Bergstraße 4.5.2025
Polygonatum multiflorum / Solomon's Seal, D Zwingenberg an der Bergstraße 4.5.2025
Fig. 4:  Polygonatum multiflorum / Solomon's Seal
D Zwingenberg an der Bergstraße 4.5.2025
Polygonatum multiflorum / Solomon's Seal, D Zwingenberg an der Bergstraße 4.5.2025
Fig. 5:  Polygonatum multiflorum / Solomon's Seal
D Zwingenberg an der Bergstraße 4.5.2025
Polygonatum multiflorum / Solomon's Seal, D Zwingenberg an der Bergstraße 4.5.2025
Fig. 6:  Polygonatum multiflorum / Solomon's Seal (leaf bottom side)
D Zwingenberg an der Bergstraße 4.5.2025
Polygonatum multiflorum / Solomon's Seal, D Wald-Erlenbach 26.6.2015
Fig. 7:  Polygonatum multiflorum / Solomon's Seal
D Wald-Erlenbach 26.6.2015
Polygonatum multiflorum / Solomon's Seal, A Eggenburg 9.5.2025
Fig. 8:  Polygonatum multiflorum / Solomon's Seal
A Eggenburg 9.5.2025
Polygonatum multiflorum / Solomon's Seal, A Eggenburg 9.5.2025
Fig. 9:  Polygonatum multiflorum / Solomon's Seal
A Eggenburg 9.5.2025
Polygonatum multiflorum / Solomon's Seal, A Eggenburg 9.5.2025
Fig. 10:  Polygonatum multiflorum / Solomon's Seal
A Eggenburg 9.5.2025
Polygonatum multiflorum / Solomon's Seal, A Eggenburg 9.5.2025
Fig. 11:  Polygonatum multiflorum / Solomon's Seal
A Eggenburg 9.5.2025
Polygonatum multiflorum / Solomon's Seal, A Eggenburg 9.5.2025
Fig. 12:  Polygonatum multiflorum / Solomon's Seal
A Eggenburg 9.5.2025
Polygonatum multiflorum / Solomon's Seal, Croatia Medvednica 5.6.2006
Fig. 13:  Polygonatum multiflorum / Solomon's Seal
Croatia, Medvednica 5.6.2006
Polygonatum multiflorum / Solomon's Seal, Croatia Medvednica 5.6.2006
Fig. 14:  Polygonatum multiflorum / Solomon's Seal
Croatia, Medvednica 5.6.2006
Polygonatum multiflorum / Solomon's Seal, D Grettstadt 18.7.2015
Fig. 15:  Polygonatum multiflorum / Solomon's Seal
D Grettstadt 18.7.2015
Polygonatum multiflorum / Solomon's Seal, D Black-Forest, Gengenbach 3.7.2018
Fig. 16:  Polygonatum multiflorum / Solomon's Seal
D Black-Forest, Gengenbach 3.7.2018
Polygonatum multiflorum / Solomon's Seal, D Black-Forest, Gengenbach 3.7.2018
Fig. 17:  Polygonatum multiflorum / Solomon's Seal
D Black-Forest, Gengenbach 3.7.2018
Polygonatum multiflorum / Solomon's Seal, D Sasbach am Kaiserstuhl 23.8.2008
Fig. 18:  Polygonatum multiflorum / Solomon's Seal
D Sasbach am Kaiserstuhl 23.8.2008
Polygonatum multiflorum / Solomon's Seal, D Sasbach am Kaiserstuhl 23.8.2008
Fig. 19:  Polygonatum multiflorum / Solomon's Seal
D Sasbach am Kaiserstuhl 23.8.2008

 


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