Laminated Specimen - Leaf

Real leaf of Chinese Pink - Dianthus chinensis specimen laminated in clear plastic sheet. The specimen is clear, transparent and indestructible. Safe, authentic and completely unbreakable product put the specimen right at your fingertips!

Anyone can safely explore the specimen from both sides.

Size of the lamination sheet is 95x65 mm (3.7x2.6 inch).

It is an ideal learning aid for students and kids and also a very good collectible item for every body.

This is a handmade real specimen craft. Each one will be a bit different (specimen size, color and posture) even in the same production batch.
The pictures in the listing are just for reference as we are selling multiple pieces with same pictures.

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Chinese Pink - Dianthus chinensis

Order: Caryophyllales  Family: Caryophyllaceae  Genus: Dianthus  Species: D. chinensis

Dianthus chinensis (Chinese Pink) is a species of Dianthus native to northern China, Korea, Mongolia, and southeastern Russia.

It is a herbaceous perennial plant growing to 30–50 cm tall. The leaves are green to greyish green, slender, 3–5 cm long and 2–4 mm broad. The flowers are white, pink, or red, 3–4 cm diameter, produced singly or in small clusters from spring to mid-summer.

It is widely cultivated as an ornamental plant, both in China and elsewhere across temperate regions of the world; numerous cultivars have been selected for garden use.

D. chinensis is the famous Chinese Pink, a native of Asia, and introduced from China the Manchurian coast nearly two hundred years ago. The species is about eighteen inches high, of branching growth, and the reddish flowers scent the winds of summer with their sweet fragrance. It has given rise to a race of showy border plants, which show a wonderful diversity of flower colour and form. Probably the best known is the Japanese variety, D. Heddewigii, a strain of dwarf compact plants, and there is also a section with more deeply cut petals. A. c., var. dentosus (the Amur Pink), is very distinct and pretty, the violet-shaded flowers, each an inch across, with toothed margins and dark spots near the base of the petals, giving the flower the appearance of having a dark eye. The varieties are very numerous, and include single and double forms, the colours varying from the white of albus to the crimson of fulgens.

Perennial growing to 0.7m. It is hardy to zone 7. It is in flower from July to August, and the seeds ripen from August to September. The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) and are pollinated by Bees and Lepidoptera (Moths & Butterflies). It is noted for attracting wildlife. We rate it 1 out of 5 for usefulness.

The plant prefers light (sandy), medium (loamy) and heavy (clay) soils and requires well-drained soil. The plant prefers acid, neutral and basic (alkaline) soils. It cannot grow in the shade. It requires dry or moist soil.

The Chinese pink has been used for over 2,000 years in Chinese herbal medicine. The whole plant is a bitter tonic herb that stimulates the digestive and urinary systems and also the bowels. It is also anthelmintic, antibacterial, antiphlogistic, diaphoretic, diuretic, emmenagogue, febrifuge and haemostatic. It is used internally in the treatment of acute urinary tract infections (especially cystitis), urinary stones, constipation and failure to menstruate. It is used externally to treat skin inflammations and swellings. The old leaves are crushed and used for clearing the eyesight.