TY - JOURS
T1 - Das Geheimnis der Armleuchteralgen (Characeae)
VAHLE, HANS-CHRISTOPH
JAS - Jahr für Goethe.
JF - Jahrbuch für Goetheanismus
PY - 2004
VL - 2004
SP - 77
EP - 118
DO - 10.18756/jfg.2004.77
SN - Print :1866-4830 Online : 2750-2341 
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N1 - The secret of candelabra algae CharaceaeCandelabra algae Characeae belong to the most endangered fresh water plants In deep lakes they need very clear water poor in nutrients In shallow water regular mechanical disturbances are necessary to protect their existence because Characeae are pioneering vegetation in such places This is very complicated for nature protection management and causes high costs Therefore it would be significant to find a reasonable and sustainable use of the Characeae This is intended with the present paper At first a relation between vegetation forms and the classical four elements is givenGranularshaped element  fire Stern space element  Linearshaped element  air pulvinateshaped element   earth Planeshaped element  water threadshaped element jThis is demonstrated by the influence of fire and air in dry meadows with their dominating granular and linearshaped elements and by the influence of water in forest broadleaved plant communities and water lilies with their predominantly planarleafed formative element The earth element here represented by the pulvinate shapes of the peat mosses dominates in high upland bogs and constitutes the landscape The naturally existing onesided phenomena of certain areas of upland bogs today occur aspathologicalphenomena almost everyWhere in very varied environments through the excessive spread of coverings and pillows of moss Different species participate showing a common aggressive dominant growth which in many cases suppresses the original vegetation The most wellknown example is the increase of moss carpets in our lawns At the same time fungal infections and slug attacks on cultivated plants increase All threepictures of damageare results of excessive earth element effectsThe question of a balancing therapeutic force leads to a landscape opposite to that of the highland bog the salt marsh Here typical plants are the goosefoot family Chenopodiaceae and the crucifers Brassicaceae The latter are sulphur plants carrying fire and light processes within themselves antagonists of the earth element Here we can look formedicinal herbswhich suppress the proliferation of the earth element In the metamorphosis of the cruciferous plants going from watercress Nasturtium officinale to horseradish Armomcia lapatbifolia with a sulphur process descending successively into the region of the roots or the earth the question arises as to the continuation of this series The lightfire process of sulphur needs to be built up even more actively against water and earth forces than in the case of the horseradish As a consequence we would expect an especially high physiological activityAll this is true for the candelabra algae suppression of planktonic algae and midge larvae in the water in which they grow resistance to plant pests and their former use as organic fertiliser and for defence against plant posts are effects which belong to the context of thefire plant against the element of earth A larger experiment will investigate whether there is also an effect of Characeae against fungal infections snails and moss This way the protection of a rare plant group could be combined with its use in an ideal way
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ST - Das Geheimnis der Armleuchteralgen (Characeae)
UR - https://dx.doi.org/10.18756/jfg.2004.77
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