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Rosa banksiae Rosa persica. There are currently four subgenera in Rosa, although there have been some disputes over the years. [3] The four subgenera are: Hulthemia (formerly Simplicifoliae, meaning "with single leaves") containing one or two species from Southwest Asia, R. persica and R. berberifolia (syn. R. persica var. berberifolia) which are the only species without compound leaves or ...
After the Federation of Australia that took place in 1901, the upsurge in nationalism led to the search for an official national floral emblem. Archibald Campbell had founded the Wattle Club in Victoria in 1899 to promote interest in and profile of the wattle as a unique Australian flower. [1]
Wild prairie rose: Rosa blanda or arkansana: 1907 [49] Northern Mariana Islands: Flores mayo: Plumeria: 1979 [4] Ohio: Scarlet carnation (state flower) Dianthus caryophyllus: 1953 [50] Large white trillium (state wild flower) Trillium grandiflorum: 1987 [51] Oklahoma: Oklahoma rose (state flower) Rosa: 2004 [52] Indian blanket (state wildflower ...
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Antirrhinum is a genus of plants in the Plantaginaceae family, commonly known as dragon flowers or snapdragons because of the flowers' fancied resemblance to the face of a dragon that opens and closes its mouth when laterally squeezed. They are also sometimes called toadflax [1] or dog flower. [2]
In Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22 an aged Italian hurls an American Beauty rose at Major de Coverly, wounding him in the eye. The flower is a recurring motif in the Oscar-winning 1999 film American Beauty. It was also featured on the cover of the Grateful Dead album American Beauty. 'American Beauty' is the official flower of the District of ...
Vincent van Gogh's Flowers in a Blue Vase, about 1889-1890 . Flowers were the subject of many of Van Gogh's paintings in Paris, due in great part to his regard for flowers. [4] As said to his brother, "You will see that by making a habit of looking at Japanese pictures you will come to love to make up bouquets and do things with flowers all the ...