The Noble Edelweiss

Leontopodium Alpinum

Edelweis flowers there are two. Java edelweis and Swiss Edelweiss . Both had a cult interest, until there is a song that was created for him. As beautiful as the flowers.Flowers of Switzerland it has been since before World War I, known to the whole world. Edelweiss proclaimed high mountain just want to grow it and grow even in difficult places, such as steep slopes such as stone walls. If anyone can pick and take him home, well not play proud. That evidence, he was actually climbing the highest mountains and dangerous. Edelweiss flower growing poppy after the Rogers and Hammerstein Edelweiss song popularized all over the world. Really touching song, to be used in the film The Sound of Music. The movie is good, so is playing in theaters for months, America in 1970.The  glorious White Interest actually was not that good. Only white only. But as she grew up in the dirty black rock mountain, then weiss (white) edel markedly visible (noble). Plants are among the outstanding scientists as Leontopodium Alpinum this form upright plant that is only 15 cm just low. Not soft woody stalks and if there's nothing left to die. He called for growing native Alpinum Alps Mountains (British) or Alpine (Germany). How strange, short haired green leaves. Similarly, the flowers are small yellow compound surrounded by a collar of white petals like silver. It all felt like a short haired (cloth of felt), but sometimes also nothing like velvet. After getting ngetop popnya and more foreign tourists visiting Switzerland, Edelweiss flower as an all-out robbed. Some conservation societies and attract a fee in the exit area Edelweiss, with the intention that devotees brakes. The results of the levy will be used to Edelweiss flower nursery. So do not go extinct if collected continuously. In some areas to try to preserve the Edelweiss flower pemetikkannya prohibit altogether from their environment. Many climbers also were disappointed. Fortunately the world outside Switzerland then know, that interest is commercialized it also grows on the southern slopes of the Alps, the region of Italy. Booming growth, until it forms a white carpet amid broad green grassy field once. Ah! Why bother looking for Edelweiss on the slopes of the Swiss Alps, then? It turned out later, in mainland Asia Himalayas and Cordilleras de Los Andes South America was there Edelweiss Leontopodium, although somewhat different. Himalayan edelweiss, Leontopodium Alpinum Stracheyi for example, as if the great flowering, because the petals that surround the crown length and rough. Presumably because the plant adjustment with exceptional rainfall in the Himalayas. To survive in the cruel nature more rain than in Europe, the feathery petals rougher than Swiss Edelweiss.

Java Edelweis

Java edelweis
Next thing you know the news that circulated in Indonesia also have Edelweiss. Growing in the cold mountainous area that is at least 2000 m height above sea level as the top of Mount Gede (height 2968 m), Mount Sindoro (height 3135 m). However, different from Java Edelweis Swiss Edelweiss. The plant is a tree. Woody trunk, at the wrist. To 4 m high. Although different, the Swiss Edelweiss, which is a tiny little plant, he still tribal, Compositae, with Leontopodium. As with other relatives Compositae (sunflower, chrysanthemum, dahlia flower), flower Edelweis not Java "weiss" again but amber. Maybe because it only grows in the high mountains just kept dry and durable, it is reminiscent of a Dutch Edelweis of age Voor de Oorlog first at Edelweiss flower of Switzerland, and then call it "Edelweis" too. Indonesian people may not call it that, because it provides a valid name their own respective areas.

Source: Robert Martin