You know, it can be very hard for me to explainfamiliar men and some girlfriends, what flowers I like. The only way out is to write a guide, not to give everyone a guided tour of the flower shops? So I'll start with my beloved Eustoma - with the medical name. He's like this:
The subject of the conversation is lisianthus,eustomaPrairie gentian, lisianthus, Texas bluebell, Tulip gentian, bluebells, lira de san pedro is all Eustoma, a gentian relative. In our flower stalls responds to eustoma and lisianthus. The second name is more commercial - it sounds very medically "eustoma" (it turns out either "tasty" or "splendid" if refined in interpreting the Greek roots). Described plant in the XIX century, botanist Thomas Drummond, calling what he found in Texas Lisianthus russellianus. In the wild, the flower grows in the lowlands and on the banks of the rivers of Arizona, Colorado and northern Mexico. Wild eustoma - rather boring plant: squat, with flowers of different shades from blue to purple. In 1835 the flower got into the botanical garden of Glasgow, and then began to settle in pots on the windows. One way or another, the description of it as a houseplant appeared in 1878. The flower has gained immense popularity in Japan under the name Torukokikyo (Toruko "lady's hat" and Kikyo "bell", if absolutely, then Platycodon). In the late sixties of the XX century, it was discovered that there are white and pink eustoms. Since then, things have gone - terry and large-color varieties appeared, red, light yellow, bicolour flowers appeared. The flower proved to be convenient for transportation, spectacular in bouquets and long-lived in vases, there were also amateurs to grow it in pots. They write that "usually the seeds of the eustoma can not be purchased, since they come only to commercial flower farms. From one gram of seeds, it is theoretically possible to grow 15,000 plants. The process of development before the onset of the flowering phase in modern varieties lasts about three months. Seedlings contain high temperatures and additional artificial light. The technology of cultivation by the eustom is now developed to the smallest detail, flowering plants can be obtained at any time of the year. In order for the regime of growing these heat-loving flowers to be as economical as possible, they should be purchased in July. Then they will blossom all the second half of the summer, with little or no cost. They can be placed on the street, planted in flower beds or containers. Low-growing forms of eustoma are grown as houseplants. "
