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Marsh marigold. Калужница болотная.

Marsh marigold (Caltha palustris) is a golden member of the Buttercup family (Ranunculaceae). She comes from Eurasia. This wild plant of wet meadows is truly universal: it can be used as food, medicinal, decorative.

Marsh marigold is a short-rhizome herbaceous perennial 10-40 cm high and 45 cm wide. The stem is straight or ascending, thick, juicy, hollow, not rooting at the nodes, branched closer to the top. The leaves are alternate, entire, leathery, shiny. Especially beautiful are the lower (basal) ones - large, round-heart-shaped, long-leaved. The middle and upper ones are smaller, short-petiolate or almost sessile, reniform-heart-shaped or triangular-reniform, 4-10 cm long. The surface leaves are dark green, the underwater ones are reddish-violet.

Shooting with the lens "Jupiter 8" 2.0 / 50 (Carl Zeiss Sonnar 2/50. Created by Ludwig Jakob Bertele for ZEISS IKON AG and patented in 1931). The lens of the Krasnogorsk plant was manufactured in 1960.

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Uploaded on May 16, 2022
Taken on May 15, 2022