Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1567/en

One can experience it as a phenomenon of a special kind: how the sap-streams of a perennial herb such as valerian are constituted. To begin with, the assimilation stream (*Phloem*) from the leaf rosette nourishes the growth of the rhizomes and roots, along with their substance compositions, in which the material structure of the whole plant is already present. As soon as the stem begins to shoot upward, these pre-formed substances flow into the ascending *xylem* stream and are, in air, light, and warmth, once again compositionally refined by the formative forces of the metamorphosing leaf region. Through them the essential archetype of the valerian — its *Wesensurbild* — takes shape in stem, leaf sequence, and inflorescence into outward, sense-perceptible appearance. The earthly gravity of the substances in the rootstock passes, through foliage and blossom, over into "lightness" and drifts away in fragrance.