Bastard box

Polygala chamaebuxus var.grandiflora

  • Bastard box
  • Bastard box
  • Bastard box
  • Bastard box
  • Flower name
    Bastard box
  • Scientific name
    Polygala chamaebuxus var.grandiflora
  • Aliasポリガラ・カマエブクスス, 常盤姫萩
  • Place of originEuropean Alpine
  • Place of floweringHigh mountain, Garden
  • Flowering seasonMarch, April

What is Bastard box

Bastard box, a scientific name: Polygala chamaebuxus var.grandiflora, is an alpine plant of the evergreen shrub of the polygala genus native of the European Alps. It makes flowers of pink and yellow double colors bloom.

General name: Bastard box , Scientific name:Polygala chamaebuxus var. grandiflora , Also known as: PolyGram camebuxs, origin: European Alps, Living environment: 2500 m high mountain forest, lives: cold-resistant and non-of heat-tolerant evergreen shrubs of alpine plants, height: 10-15 cm, leaf shape: oval-shaped-cortex there lanceolate, leaf quality: glossy, leaf color: green, leaf arrangement: alternate, stipule: nothing, flower: pink and yellow-colored, birefringence colors of yellow and white, aromatic: aerobic, flower diameter: 1-1.5 cm, flowers: racemes, inflorescence length: cm, flowering period: March-places flowers in April, from the axil keel valve yellow Wings Butterfly-shaped flowers white or pink racemes on the petal count: three stamens: 8 sepals: breaking the sepals number: five Fruit: capsule and ripens fruit, seeds: 2, applications: potted plants, planter, flower bed borders the Grand Cove-a note: alpine flora.


  • Order
    Fabales
  • Family
    Polygalaceae
  • Genus
    Polygala
  • Species
    P. chamaebuxus var.grandiflora
  • Type of flower
    Left-right symmetrical flower
  • Array of flower
    Gross inflorescence
  • Petal shape
    Butterfly shape
  • Leaf type
    Oval
  • Edge of the leaf
    Entire
  • Life typeCold-resistant and non-Alpine of heat-tolerant evergreen shrubs
  • Flower colorsPink
  • Colors of the leavesGreen
  • Fruit color
  • Height10.0 ~ 15.0 cm
  • Diameter of flower1.0 ~ 1.5 cm

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