Saponin
The botanical kind Saponaria (the saponins ) gathers Plante S of the family of the Caryophyllacées which owe their name with the fact that their Fleur S contains Saponine S making foam water and allowing them (at least for the species Saponaria officinalis ) to be used as substitute of the Savon. One knows some in a a whole score of species, generally the Mediterranean.
They are long-lived herbaceous plants with Feuille S simple and whole, opposite. Length chalice tubulé with five teeth with many veins (from 15 to 25). Corolla with five pink or yellow petals with scales with the throat. Ten cheesecloth S and generally two styles. The Fruit is a capsule with four valves.
Principal species (French flora)
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Saponaria bellidifolia Sm. - Saponin with sheets of Daisy
- Saponaria caespitosa cd. - Saponin turfing
- Saponaria lutea L. - yellow Saponin
- Saponaria ocymoides L. - Saponin of Montpellier
- Saponaria officinalis L. - Saponin officinal
- Saponaria orientalis L. - Saponin of the East
Description
It is a rather large plant (from 30 to 80 cm), plentiful, with opposite oval sheets, the lower petiolate ones, with the pale pink flowers (from 2 to 4 cm, odorous). It is frequently in hot and dry places. Meets in colony at the edge of the slopes, roadside, waste grounds, plains, on sands, river bank… Can sometimes rise until 1500m.
Its flowering generally lasts from June to October.
See too
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''' Saponin ''' on Ekopedia
- ''' Saponin officinal ''' on ''' wild Flowers of Acadie '''
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