Volume 20
Issue 3
Horticulture
JOURNAL OF
POLISH
AGRICULTURAL
UNIVERSITIES
DOI:10.30825/5.ejpau.26.2017.20.3, EJPAU 20(3), #01.
Available Online: http://www.ejpau.media.pl/volume20/issue3/abs-01.html
HEDERA HELIX (ARALIACEAE) IN OLD CEMETERIES IN THE WIELKOPOLSKA REGION (IN POLAND)
DOI:10.30825/5.EJPAU.26.2017.20.3
Aneta Czarna
Katedra Botaniki, Wydział Ogrodnictwa i Architektury Krajobrazu, Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy w Poznaniu, Poland
ABSTRACT
In old cemeteries in the Wielkopolska region, 1124 localities of Hedera helix (European ivy) were found. In 863 of the cemeteries, flowering specimens of this species were observed. The populations are clearly of anthropogenic origin. The large number of its localities proves that it was popular in cultivation. In the past it had a symbolic meaning.
Key words: chorology, symbolic meaning, Wielkopolska, Polska.
Aneta Czarna
Katedra Botaniki, Wydział Ogrodnictwa i Architektury Krajobrazu, Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy w Poznaniu, Poland
Wojska Polskiego 71C
60-625 Poznań
Poland
email: aneta.czarna@up.poznan.pl
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