a lovley flower, natha! is this violet very similar to odorata? i have a reference which calls it 'a form of odorata from romania'. very interesting colours.... thank you! rob...
Well..not so similar to Viola odorata as it should be I know...It has smooth leaves and never set runners...Very few seeds...But I am sure I have it from Caucase moutains. I saw on a japanese website that the same violet has the same name ( same seeds origins?? maybe?) It has also a very distinct perfume...lightly lemony! :-))
Ooh la la! Brava Natha! What a charming flower! And lemony fragrance!!! Does it always have curly petals? Wonder if it can also be found in China? Don't think I have come across this name in my Flora of China (which is not at hand at the moment for me to look it up)...
For those not familiar with V. ignobilis, I have the description from B.K. Shishkin (Editor) Flora of the USSR, Vol. XV (1949), translated in 1974 [via an email from Gerd Knoche a few years ago, when you, he and I were discussing it]:
"Perennial, 3-7 cm high, weaker and more slender than V. odorata; rhizome thickish, with approximate joints, giving rise to slender, creeping rooting aerial stolons to 12 cm long, these bearing at their summit a rosette of basal leaves and flowers in the axils; leaves smaller than those of V. odorata, cordate reniform or partly reniform, fully grown 0,7-3,5 cm long and 1-3,2cm broad, rounded or very obtusely triangular at apex, with a rather deep sinus at base, crenulate or crenate-dentate, thin, glabrous, or petiole and veins soft-hairy; stipules thin, hyaline, ovate, acute, shortly ciliate and often glandular-ciliate; flowers 1,2-2 cm long, scentless or very faintly fragrant; peduncles glabrous or sligthtly pubescent with recurved hairs, two bracts at or below middle; sepals ovate or oblong, obtuse or partly subacute; petals lilac, entire or crenulate or (lower petal) notched; lateral petals beardless; spur 2-3mm long, straight, slightly attenuate toward tip obtusish; ovary pubescent; style scarcely compressed laterally, recurved at summit, beak shorter than style diameter, horizontal or obliquely ascending at tip. May. Alpine zone of mountains. - Caucasus: Sisc. and E. Transc.(Main Caucasus Range), W. and S. Transc. Gen. distr.: Iran (N.). Described from Gud-Gora Mountain and the vicinity of Kaishaur on the Georgian Military Road. Type in Leningrad."
Thats a very pretty color and shape. I am somewhat new to growing violets and am looking forward to having as many choice varieties as I can get to grow here in Oklahoma...
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