Chilean Gravilate

	Chilean Gravilate
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryotes
Kingdom:	Plants
The kingdom :	Green plants
Department:	Flower
Class:	Dicotyledons
Over Order :	Rosanae
Order:	Rosaceae
Family:	Pink
Subfamily :	Rosaceae
Nadtriba :	Rosodae
Tribe :	Colurieae
Rod:	Avens
View:	Chilean Gravilate
International Scientific Name
	Geum quellyon Sweet 1829
Synonyms
	Geum chiloense hort. ;

Chilean Gravilate ^[3] ( lat. Geum quellyon ) is a perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Gravilate of the family Pink ( Rosaceae ).

It is used in floriculture as a decorative garden plant.

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Botanical description

The plant is up to 60 cm tall.

Leaves in a basal rosette, unpaired.

The flowers are red up to 3 cm in diameter, collected in panicle inflorescence . It blooms from the end of June for fifty days. Fruits ^[4] .

Medical Use

Chilean gravilate is used in traditional Mapuche medicine in Chile to treat toothache, inflammation of the stomach , prostatitis and the regulation of menstruation ^[5] . The methanol extract obtained from the root of Geum quellyon has an anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and antitumor effect ^[6] .

In culture

It is used in landings and for the design of alpine slides .

In culture since 1824.

Varieties with terry larger flowers are known:

'Mr. J. Bradishow' ('Mrs J. Bradshow') - a plant up to 60 cm tall, double flowers, scarlet-orange up to 4 cm in diameter, blooms from July for a month;
`Lady Stratheden` (` Lady Stratheden`) - yellow flowers;
'Goldball' - yellow flowers, blooms from May to August;
'Fireball' ('Fireball') - a plant up to 50 cm tall, flowers up to 4 cm in diameter, double, scarlet-orange, blooms from July 45-60 days ^[4] .

Winter-hardy. Terry varieties are covered with leaves for the winter. It blooms from May to August (depending on variety) ^[7] .

Used in hybridization .

Notes

↑ About the conditionality of specifying the class of dicotyledons as a higher taxon for the group of plants described in this article, see the section “APG Systems” of the article “Dicotyledons” .
↑ Chilean Gravilate (English) : information on the GRIN website.
↑ The Russian name “Chilean gravilate” is used in the book Resettlement of Plants to the Polar North, Volume 1. Nauka, 1964. С - 196
↑ ¹ ² Gravilate in the Encyclopedia of Ornamental Garden Plants
↑ Muñoz, O., Montes, M., Wilkomirsky, T., 2004. In: Maldonado, S. (Ed.), Plantas medicinales de uso en Chile. Quimica y farmacologia. Editorial Universitaria, SA Santiago, Chile, pp. 129-132
↑ Gali-Muhtasib, HU, Younes, IH, Karchesy, JJ, el-Sabban, ME, 2001. Plant tannins inhibit the induction of aberrant crypt foci and colonic tumors by 1,2-dimethylhydrazine in mice. Nutrition Cancer39, 108-116
↑ Chilean Gravilate. Greeninfo.ru

Links

[1] About the conditionality of specifying the class of dicotyledons as a higher taxon for the group of plants described in this article, see the section “APG Systems” of the article “Dicotyledons” .

[2] Chilean Gravilate (English) : information on the GRIN website.

[3] The Russian name “Chilean gravilate” is used in the book Resettlement of Plants to the Polar North, Volume 1. Nauka, 1964. С - 196

[ЭДСР-4] ¹ ² Gravilate in the Encyclopedia of Ornamental Garden Plants

[5] Muñoz, O., Montes, M., Wilkomirsky, T., 2004. In: Maldonado, S. (Ed.), Plantas medicinales de uso en Chile. Quimica y farmacologia. Editorial Universitaria, SA Santiago, Chile, pp. 129-132

[6] Gali-Muhtasib, HU, Younes, IH, Karchesy, JJ, el-Sabban, ME, 2001. Plant tannins inhibit the induction of aberrant crypt foci and colonic tumors by 1,2-dimethylhydrazine in mice. Nutrition Cancer39, 108-116

[7] Chilean Gravilate. Greeninfo.ru