Muscari commutatum, Dark Grape Hyacinth,
Hebrew: כדן סגול, Arabic: بصل الحيّة
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| Scientific name: |
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Muscari commutatum Guss. |
| Common name: |
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Dark Grape Hyacinth |
| Hebrew name: |
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כדן סגול |
| Arabic name: |
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بصل الحيّة |
| Family: |
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Liliaceae, שושניים |
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| Life form: |
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Geophyte |
| Stems: |
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Erect flower stalk, unbranched scape, hirsute |
| Leaves: |
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Rosette, sessile, parallel venation, linear, entire margin |
| Inflorescence: |
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Raceme |
| Flowers: |
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Corolla, purple, 6 fused tepals, urn shaped, small opening with 6 tiny black teeth at its outer end |
| Fruits / pods: |
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Capsule, dehiscent loculicidal capsule, green, changes beige when ripe and dry; seed, spherical-oval, black |
| Flowering Period: |
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January, February, March, December |
| Habitat: |
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Batha, Phrygana |
| Distribution: |
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Mediterranean Woodlands and Shrublands, Semi-steppe shrublands, Shrub-steppes, Deserts and extreme deserts |
| Chorotype: |
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Med – Irano-Turanian |
| Summer shedding: |
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Ephemeral |
| Derivation of the botanical name:
Muscari, grape-hyacint; Greek moschus, musk; an allusion to the sweet scent of some species. Umberto Quattrocchi says: A Turkish name recorded by Clusius in 1583. Latin muscus, i “moss, musk.”
commutatum, commuto, to change, to exchange; changeable.
The Hebrew name: כדן, kadan, hyacinth.
- The standard author abbreviation Guss. is used to indicate Giovanni Gussone (1787 – 1866), an Italian botanist.
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