Transformational Gardening


Celandine (Chelidonium majus): Images

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May 10, 2010 Southeastern, New Hampshire Deep yellow colored 4-petal, radially symmetrical flower. One petal missing in image. The leaves are over 4 inches long, alternate up the stem and are divided into heavily-lobed segments.
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May 13, 2010 Southeastern, New Hampshire A big patch of Celandine. These leaves are also heavily-lobed, but not lobed quite as much as the plant pictured above.
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June 7, 2010 Southeastern, New Hampshire Notice the vertical seed pods that are now growing on the Celandine plant.
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April 10, 2011 Southeastern, New Hampshire Celandine is a perennial and is one of the first plants to come up in the Spring. Alternate leaves with 5 to 7 lobes. It can be hard to see from the pictures, but Celandine has a fusiform root, meaning a root that is wider in the middle and tapers at the top and bottom. The thinner bottom piece is broken off in the picture.
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April 15, 2011 Southeastern, New Hampshire More Spring Celandine pictures. Notice that leaf blade and leaf stems are hairy. Notice the orange sap that is developing at the bottom of the plant (above the root).