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Asian swimsuit (Trollius asiaticus) , or Siberian frying – a type of perennial herbs from the genus swimsuits , common in Eastern, Central and Western Siberia, in the mountainous regions of Altai, outside of Russia – in Mongolia and Central Asia. It grows in wet meadows and clearings, in bushes, is found in the tundra along the outskirts of glaciers and in high-mountain alpine meadows.

It is a rhizomatous plant with one or more flowering stems from 5-10 cm in height in the tundra zone to 100 cm in the middle zone, 1-2 shortened vegetative shoots with a rosette of few basal leaves adjacent to the base, from which a peduncle will develop next year.

Rosette leaves with long petioles up to 30-60 cm, their leaf blades 10-16 cm wide, palmately divided, with five crenate-toothed lobes. Stem leaves (1 – 5 pieces) of the same shape as the basal leaves, petiolate below, sessile above and smaller.

Beautiful Asian bathing suit flowers in the photo

Asian bathing suit flowers (see photo below) are large, up to 6 cm in diameter, bright orange, appear in late May – June, 1-5 pcs. at the top of the stem. The calyx is spherical, flatter and more open than in the European variety, and consists of 10-25 broadly elliptical sepals. The petals are narrow, widened upward, 2-3 times longer than the stamens and equal in length to the sepals. During flowering, which lasts up to 25 days, numerous nectary petals stick up from the center of the open cup, making the flowers appear double.

Asian bathing suit flower in the photo

The fruit is complex, consists of individual leaflets up to 10 mm long with thin spouts, in the amount of 25 to 54 pieces. Inside each leaflet there are 8-9 black seeds, ripening in the last days of June – July.

The plant is very decorative, used in culture since 1759. There are terry garden forms, a number of hybrid varieties have been created with large yellow, orange and red flowers of various shades. It is considered a good honey plant.

The culture is poisonous, it is not used in official medicine. In those regions where it grows in nature, in folk medicine (Tibetan, Mongolian, Altai and Western Siberia), it is used for diseases of the eyes and gastrointestinal tract, as a tonic. In the 19th century, yellow textile paint was obtained from the flowers.

It is a rare species, included in a number of regional red books.

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