10 exclusive plants of Yerevan Botanical Garden

What is known to us about the permanent residents of Yerevan Botanical Garden? With this question we visited the Botanical Garden and together with scientific workers singled out 10 exclusive plants and flowers. Some of them are registered in the Red Book of Armenia, and some have been brought to Armenia during Soviet years from different countries.

Yucca

This South American plant was not frequently met in Soviet Yerevan. In the continent of America people make rough fabric from the filaments of this plant, but in Armenia it is used only for landscaping.

Mahonia usual

Mahonia is native to North America and Asia. As biologists say, this plant with sharp-edged leaves adapted to the climate of Armenia very easily.

False Jasmine 

You can feel the presence of the false jasmine at a few meters distance by its unique and enchanting smell. For that very reason its flowers are used for preparing perfume.

Water Lilies

In the little pool of the greenhouse in the Botanical Garden workers take care of water lilies like the apple of their eyes. Once this plant was growing in many ponds of Armenia, then it gradually disappeared and now it is rarely met. Water lilies are very loved especially by the youngest visitors.

Oriental poppy

This species of poppy is registered in the Red Book of Armenia.  This flower with large petals is met in mountainous parts of Armenia.

Ginkgo biloba

This is a plant of Eastern-Asian origin. The decoctions made from its leaves are useful in case of violations of cerebral vessels. People interested in herbal medicine often visit the Botanical Garden and take some leaves.

Rosa haemisphaerica Herrm (species of sweet-brier)

Almost everywhere in Armenia one can see sweet-briers. But this one differs from other species of sweet-briers. And as workers say, the fruit is not as prickly as its brothers’.

Flax

People received weft from this plant still in the 4-5^th millenniums BC. The flaxseed oil and the drugs prepared from this plant are often applied in medicine.

Smirniobsis armena

This is an Armenian endemic species of plant with a strange-sounding name. Its uniqueness is in frequency of its blooming. No one knows whether it will blossom in 1, 2 or 5 years. After blossoming the plant dies.

Voznapush

This perennial prairie plant adapts to any environment, does not need irrigation and is adapted to any living conditions.