Scented Salomonssiegel 15 fresh seeds, Polygonatum Odoratum seeds

🌱 Polygonatum Odoratum — Scented Salomonssiegel

This product is 15 fresh seeds of Polygonatum Odoratum, a perennial herbaceous plant from the Lily of the valley family (Convallariaceae). It is a sweet-smelling herb with a range of traditional uses.

🌿 Botanical Description

Polygonatum Odoratum is a 10-50 cm tall, naked, herbaceous plant with a powerful scaly, creeping, branching rhizome. The stem is erect, slightly arched, and faceted. The leaves are alternate, oblong-ovate, elliptical, sessile, semi-stem-embracing, gray-green below. The flowers are white, odorous, tubular, regular, bisexual, emerge from the leaf axils singly, rarely two or more on peduncles about 20 mm long. Fruit – blue-black, with a touch, berry size from 8 to 12 mm. Blooms from may to June.

🌾 Growing & Agrotechnics

• Sowing depth: 1-2 cm, timing: spring or autumn, pre-treatment: stratification for 2-3 months.
• Germination temperature and time: 15-20°C, 1-2 months.
• Soil type: drying, slightly acidic, rich, humus, loose, mostly small, sandy, stony and clay soils.
• Watering and fertilization: regular watering, moderate fertilization.
• USDA Hardiness Zone: 3-8, frost tolerance: moderate.

🗺️ Natural Growing Areas

Polygonatum Odoratum is found throughout the European part of Russia, in Western and Eastern Siberia, in Ukraine, and in Belarus. It grows in forests, meadows, and edges.

✨ Interesting Facts

The plant is poisonous, but has been used in traditional medicine for centuries. The rhizomes contain a large amount of mucus, starch, ascorbic acid, alkaloids, fructose, glucose, arabinose. The plant is also used as an ornamental plant.

🪴 Geophyte

Polygonatum Odoratum is a geophyte plant, meaning it has buds of renewal and termination of shoots that endure an unfavorable period in the soil.

🌸 Medicinal Uses

The plant is used for medicinal purposes, with the stems, leaves, flowers, and rhizomes being used to treat various ailments.