Platycodon grandiflorus

Platycodon grandiflorus `Fuji. Balloon Flowers are summer-blooming cousins to the more familiar Bellflowers. This selection forms a compact mound of green foliage, bearing inflated buds . Everything you need to know about the use of platycodon roots (Jie Geng) in Traditional Chinese medicine.

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Campanula gentianoides Lam. Division ‎: ‎Tracheophyta – vascular plants, trach. Kingdom ‎: ‎Plantae – plantes, Planta, Vegetal, p. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, opposite or alternate,.

Other Common Names: Chinese-bellflower platycodon. Excellent impulse item for gifts or just take-home. Ideally suited for modern mixed combinations and highlight patio.

The curiously angular inflated buds open to large, purple-blue flowers in late summer and often produces colourful autumn foliage.

Interesting balloon-like buds burst open into large . Varred püstise peenikese tihedalt . Preferred Scientific Name. Get expert gardening tips on the BALLOON FLOWER. How much sun, shade, water and care does it need? Uniform, densely branche dwarf.

Attractive to pollinators Perfect for cutting. A particularly fine strain especially bred for the production of cut . Magical, puffy balloons burst open . This blue flowering perennial delights children when the flowers open in July. English: Chinese bellflower. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a . Once the plant starts to flower, the . Herbaceous Perennial Flower.

Events, portraits, and head shots. Bears large inflated five-petale bell-shaped deep purple . Find platycodon grandiflorus stock images in HD and millions of other royalty-free stock photos, illustrations and vectors in the Shutterstock collection.

Taxonavigation: Asterales. The typical cultivated plants are bred to . It has flower buds like hot air balloons and is a very hardy perennial. Polyploidy may increase . HOW TO GROW BALLOON FLOWER Characteristics of the plant Summer. Bell - shaped blue flowers. The buds swell into large angular balloons before the saucer-shaped flowers.

Balloon- shaped buds like the ones in the photo. They flower for a very long period June-September in White, Pink and Blue. Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings. Source: Flora of Zimbabwe.

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