There is A LOT of species for these things they look nice and beautiful but they are poisonous but people can cure it and use it as medicine or for medical purposes. =| yea... and there's a really big pic done there so you can see it really good



These herbaceous perennial plants are chiefly natives of the mountainous parts of the northern hemisphere, growing in moisture retentive but well draining soils on mountain meadows. Their dark green leaves lack stipules. They are palmate or deeply palmately lobed with 57 segments. Each segment again is 3-lobed with coarse sharp teeth. The leaves have a spiral or alternate arrangement. The lower leaves have long petioles.


These are handsome plants, the tall, erect stem being crowned by racemes of large and eye-catching blue, purple, white, yellow or pink zygomorphic flowers with numerous stamens. They are distinguishable by having one of the five petaloid sepals (the posterior one), called the galea, in the form of a cylindrical helmet; hence the English name monkshood. There are 210 petals, in the form of nectaries. The two upper petals are large. They are placed under the hood of the calyx and are supported on long stalks. They have a hollow spur at their apex, containing the nectar. The other petals are small and scale like or non forming. The 35 carpels are partially fused at the base.

The fruit is a follicle. A Follicle being a dry, unilocular, many-seeded, fruit formed from one carpel and dehiscing by the ventral suture in order to release seeds.

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-- Edited by Ranade on Wednesday 17th of June 2009 11:41:13 AM