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Perennial honesty with seed capsules (silicles)

 

 

In the eastern Estonian broadleaf and klint woodlands the pale, airy silicles of perennial honesty can be found as a pleasant surprise. The seed capsules that in the beginning of autumn still were a little dark have become prettily bleached.

 

The first finds of the species at our Klint were in the beginning of the 18th century. Perennial honesty has an upright stem, occasionally growing up to a metre tall; the stem branches in the upper part. By late autumn the flowers have developed into large, elliptic, flat and ornamentally hanging seed capsules that sometimes can be found even in late winter.

 

The protected plant should not be picked.