Biography of CALIPSO

Calypso is a monotypic genus of perennial herbaceous plants of the orchid family. The only species is Calipso Club, or Kalipso Bulca Lat. CALYPSO BULBOSA; A rare plant introduced in the Red Book of Russia. Kalipsso onion-a perennial herbaceous plant up to 20 cm high-on average-10-15 cm. The sheet is single, basal, with a long petiole, ovoid, pointed, folded and wavy along the edge, dark green from above and more pale below.

The length of the sheet is from 3 to 5 cm, the width is from 1.5 to 3 cm. The stem of the plant is slightly thickened at the base, forming a false bulb coated with vagina with a oblong-venerable pseudobulb. On the stem are one above the other two elongated vagina.

The stem ends with a single drooping flower, large and fragrant. The length of equal, directed upwards, diverging radio -shaped pink leaflets of the perianth is from 1.2 to 1.5 centimeters. The spotted burlap lip has about 2 cm in length. The shape of the lip resembles a slightly narrowed in the upper part of a white or yellow shoe with reddish-brown specks. Its base has three bundles of yellow hairs.

The flowering of the KALIPSO on the end of May - June and depends on the place of growth of a particular plant, fruiting - in July - August. Power pollinated by bumblebees Bombus and Psythyrus. Propagation occurs in a seed and vegetative way. To germinate the reduced seed, Kalipso, it is necessary that it comes across a mushroom gifa, which for obvious reasons happens quite rarely.

On the surface, a young plant appears only in the second year, developing before that in the soil. In the fall, a single sheet of Kalipso changes, so that under the snow the plant is still with a green sheet, which indicates a tropical origin of the species. The most favorable habitats of CALIPSO are shady green-powered coniferous spruce-pichen, less often mixed forests, swampy areas and areas along the coast of lakes and rivers, areas of limestone soils, among the fallen trees.

It is mainly found by single copies or small groups of not more than 10-15 plants. Despite the vastness of the area, the Kalipso Lukor is a rare plant in many regions of Russia and the world, including the Red Books of Russia, Buryatia, the Republics of Yakutia, Karelia and Komi, the Leningrad, Irkutsk and Murmansk regions, and in the "List of facilities of the plant world, listed in the Red Book of the Sakhalin Region." According to some reports, Kalipso bulb is the very rare type of orchid in the north-west of the European part of Russia and is rapidly dying out.

The main limiting factors of the KALIPSO bulbr are cutting down forests and forest fires of the plant roots are undeveloped in the soil, so during fires they are completely destroyed, illegal collection in bouquets, a change in the composition of phytocenosis. An example of the destructive influence of human activity on the environmental ecology is almost completely destroyed due to logging of the forest the largest population of Calipso in the Leningrad Region.