Het
lelietje-van-dalen of
meiklokje (
Convallaria majalis) is een
tot 30 cm hoge
vaste plant die in het wild voorkomt in
bosrijke streken, maar ook als tuinplant wordt gehouden. In de
grond bevindt zich een kruipende
wortelstok. Een paar brede
parallelnervige bladeren staan aan de voet van de
bloeistengel. Het lelietje-van-dalen is giftig doordat het bepaalde
glycosiden en
azetidine-2-carbonzuur
bevat.
[1]
Lily of the valley, sometimes written
lily-of-the-valley,[1]
scientific name Convallaria majalis
/ˌkɒnvəˈlɛəriə
məˈdʒeɪlɨs/,[2]
is a sweetly scented, highly poisonous
woodland flowering plant that is native
throughout the cool temperate Northern Hemisphere in Asia, and
Europe.
It is possibly the only species in the genus
Convallaria (or one of two or three, if
C. keiskei and C. transcaucasica are recognised
as separate species). In the APG III system, the genus is placed in the
family Asparagaceae, subfamily Nolinoideae (formerly the family
Ruscaceae[3]).
It was formerly placed in its own family Convallariaceae, and, like
many lilioid monocots, before that in the lily
family Liliaceae.
The flower is also known as Our Lady's tears or
Mary's tears from Christian legends that it sprang from the
weeping of the Virgin Mary during the crucifixion of Jesus. Other etiologies
have its coming into being from Eve's tears after she was driven
with Adam from the Garden of Eden[26]
or from the blood shed by Saint Leonard of Noblac during his
battles with a dragon.[citation
needed]
The name "lily of the valley" is used in some English
translations of the Bible in Song of Songs 2:1, but the Hebrew phrase "shoshannat-ha-amaqim"
in the original text (literally "lily of the valleys")
does not refer to this plant. It is possible, though, that the
biblical phrase may have had something to do with the origin or
development of the modern plant-name.
It is a symbol of humility in religious painting. Lily of the
valley is considered the sign of Christ's second coming. The power
of men to envision a better world was also attributed to the lily
of the valley.[citation
needed]
Other names include May lily, May
bells, and muguet (French). In
Bulgarian and Macedonian it is called
момина
сълза /momina.səlza/ and
момина
солза respectively, meaning
"lass's tear".
Its scientific name, majalis or maialis, means
"of or belonging to May", and old astrological books place the
plant under the dominion of Mercury, since Maia, the daughter of Atlas, was the mother of Mercury or
Hermes.[citation
needed]
In the "language of flowers", the lily of the
valley signifies the return of happiness.[27]
Legend tells of the affection of a lily of the valley for a
nightingale that did not come back to the woods
until the flower bloomed in May.[citation
needed]
Lily of the valley has been used in weddings,[27]
although it can be very expensive.[28]
Lily of the valley was featured in the bridal bouquet at the
wedding
of Prince William and Catherine Middleton.[28][29]
Lily of the valley was also the flower chosen by Princess Grace Kelly to be featured in her
bridal bouquet.
At the beginning of the 20th century, it became tradition in
France to sell lily of the valley on international labour day, 1 May (also called La Fête
du Muguet (Lily of the Valley Day) by labour organisations and
private persons without paying sales tax (on that day only) as a
symbol of spring.[30]
The Norwegian municipality Lunner
has a lily of the valley on its coat-of-arms.
Lily of the valley was the floral emblem of Yugoslavia,[31]
and it also became the national flower of Finland
in 1967.[3
Le muguet (API :
mygɛ) ou muguet de mai (Convallaria
majalis1)
est une herbacée des régions tempérées dont les
fleurs printanières, petites et blanches, forment des grappes de
clochettes très odorantes. C'est une plante toxique, voire mortelle
après avoir mangé le périanthe. En zone européenne tempérée, en forêt,
là où sa présence est naturelle, il serait (avec la pervenche) un bon bioindicateur d'ancienneté et de la naturalité de la
forêt2.
Le muguet fleurit au printemps.
Selon la classification classique, il fait
partie de la famille des Liliaceae. Selon la classification phylogénétique, il fait
partie de la famille des Ruscaceae ou des Asparagaceae (qui l'avait d'abord placé
dans la famille des Convallariaceae).
A
postcard or
post card is a
rectangular piece of thick paper or thin
cardboard intended for writing and mailing without
an
envelope. Shapes other than rectangular may also be
used. There are novelty exceptions, such as
wood postcards, made of thin wood, and copper
postcards sold in the
Copper Country of the U.S. state of
Michigan, and
coconut
"postcards" from tropical islands.
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gedeelde achterkant. Bij deze kaarten is de achterzijde in tweeën
gedeeld: de rechterhalf is bestemd voor het adres, dat op
voorgedrukte lijntjes kan worden geschreven, en links is ruimte
voor een bericht. Zo kon de zegetocht van de ansichtkaart als
communicatiemiddel beginnen. De voorzijde werd nu exclusief bestemd
voor het beeld.
