Violet leaves Absolute Egypt
Origin: Egypt

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  Introduction:

  Violet is a spontaneous perennial species that is very common in the plains and southern mountains of Northern Europe. It has a thick rootstock and petiolate, crown, heart-shaped leaves. It blooms from February to May. The large and odiferous flowers are most often dark purple with five uneven petals the lower one of which is spurred and the other four raised towards the top. The fruit is a capsule that opens into three star-shaped valves with three branches. Horticultural varieties are numerous: 1) The Parma is a sterile clone with duplicated flowers. The leaf has a short 8 to 10 cm petiole. The plants have only one flowering from January to March 2) The Victoria is a fertile clone with floral dimorphism: - The sterile flower, blooming from October to March, is simple, petalate with a long 20 to 30 cm peduncle, like the leaf with a similar-sized petiole. - The fertile flower, blooming from June to September, is a petal flower with no commercial value. Did you know that ? : The violet was first a medicinal plant by the flower, the seeds and the roots. The flower for sweets and candies (Toulouse), the flowers and leaves for bunches and finally the leaves for perfumes are used recently.

  History:

  The violet has been known since antiquity. In the 4th century B.C., it was already mentioned by the philosopher, Theophraste, considered the founder of Botany. "Viola" is said to come from the Greek ion, formerly vion, which designated Io, the mythological cow. A symbol of the great city of Athens, violets were one of the favorite flowers of ancient Greece (Moazzo, 1999). Venus, goddess of love and wife of Vulcan, god of fire and metals, refused him until the day he presented himself before her with his head encircled by a crown of violets. After lo was turned into a heifer, the earth was covered with violet flowers to feed her. In the 16th century, a violet-musk powder was recommended for hair-care. The use of violets in perfumery reached its peak in the Victorian era. In southeastern France (Vence, Tourette, Cabris) hundreds of tons of Parma violet leaves and flowers were processed each year. The people of Toulouse made them their symbol. The flower, harvested between January and April is intended for the cut-flower markets and confectionery (Toulouse). The leaves and stems are then collected to extract the concrete used in perfumery. It is the symbol of fertility, for it is also, among funerary flowers, that which signifies to the dead the fidelity of the living.

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