Disporum trachycarpum

Taxobox
name = "Disporum trachycarpum"


image_width = 220px
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Liliopsida
ordo = Liliales
familia = Colchicaceae
genus = "Disporum"
species = "D. trachycarpum"
binomial = "Disporum trachycarpum"
binomial_authority = (S. Watson) Benth. & Hook.f.

"Disporum trachycarpum", or Rough-Fruit Fairybells, is a member of the genus "Disporum" of perennial flowering plants in the family Colchicaceae. The flowers are delicate and hang down. The berry is larger than a Saskatoon, pincherry or chokecherry, about the size of a grocery store cherry or small grape. The rough fruited fairybell can be found in the same locale as other native fruits such as Saskatoons, and Chokecherries. [Citation
last = Vance
first = F.R.
author-link =
last2 = Jowsey
first2 = J.R.
author2-link =
last3 = McLean
first3 = J.S.
title = Wildflowers Across the Prairies
place = Saskatoon, SK
publisher = Western Producer Books
year = 1977
volume =
isbn=0-919306-74-8
edition =
url =
doi = page 141
id = ] This perennial is cm to in|30 to cm to in|60 in height. The leaves alternate and are about cm to in|3 to cm to in|8 Berries begin yellow, then orange and when fully ripe are red. The surface of the fruit feels fuzzy and velvety. The images of the rough-fruited fairy bell here were photographed as one was climbing up the riverbank of the South Saskatchewan River south of Saskatoon. The first nations ate fairybells, and a previous name was dog feet. [Citation
last = Johnson Kershaw
first = MacKinnon Pojar
author-link =
last2 =
first2 =
author2-link =
title = Plants of the Western Boreal Forest and Aspen Parkland
place =Edmonton Alberta
publisher =Lone Pine Publishing and the Canadian Forest Service.
year = 1995
volume =
isbn=1-55105-058-7
edition =
url =
doi = page 83
id = ]

The species shown, "Disporum trachycarpum" (rough fruited fairybell) is found in western Canada. They are listed amongst plants found in the Prince Albert National Park and Riding Mountain National Park and are considered a common range plant of northern Saskatchewan. [Citation
last = Innvista
first =
author-link =
last2 =
first2 =
author2-link =
title = Prince Albert National Park
date =
year =
url = http://www.innvista.com/science/ecology/parks/princeal.htm
accessdate = 2008-08-03 [Citation
last =
first =
author-link =
last2 =
first2 =
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title =common range plants of northern Saskatchewan
date =
year =
url = http://www.saskforage.ca/publications/Northern.pdf
accessdate = 2008-08-03

External links

* [http://www.em.ca/garden/native/nat_Disporum%20trachycarpum.html Disporum trachycarpum Saskatchewan's wildflowers]

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