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Various folk cultures and traditions assign symbolic meanings to plants. Although these are no longer commonly understood by populations that are increasingly divorced from their rural traditions, some meanings survive. In addition, these meanings are alluded to in older pictures, songs and writings.
Viola sororia ( / vaɪˈoʊlə səˈrɔːriə / vy-OH-lə sə-ROR-ee-ə ), [ 5] known commonly as the common blue violet, is a short-stemmed herbaceous perennial plant native to eastern North America. It is known by a number of common names, including common meadow violet, purple violet, woolly blue violet, hooded violet, and wood violet.
Lunaria inodora Lam. Viola lunaria Garsault. Lunaria annua, commonly called honesty or annual honesty, is a species of flowering plant in the cabbage and mustard family Brassicaceae. It is native to southern Europe, and cultivated throughout the temperate world. Ripe pods ( siliques ), some with seeds visible, some with only the central ...
Vending machine: The first vending machine was also one of his constructions; when a coin was introduced via a slot on the top of the machine, a set amount of holy water was dispensed. This was included in his list of inventions in his book Mechanics and Optics. When the coin was deposited, it fell upon a pan attached to a lever.
Asystasia multiflora Klotzsch. Asystasia ansellioides C.B.Clarke var. lanceolata Fiori. Asystasia podostachys Klotzsch[ 1] Asystasia gangetica is a species of plant in the family Acanthaceae. It is commonly known as the Chinese violet, coromandel[ 2] or creeping foxglove. [ 3] In South Africa this plant may simply be called asystasia.
The flag is based on the corresponding municipal coat of arms and has a blue background. On the hoist side, a sword, wavy white stripe and abbess's staff are placed. The sword and staff are symbols of the secular and spiritual power of the principality of Thorn. This principality existed up to and including the eighteenth century and included ...
Viola allegheniensis L.K. Henry 1953, illegitimate homonym not Roem. & Schult. 1819. Viola walteri var. appalachiensis (L.K. Henry) L.E. McKinney. Viola appalachiensis, the Appalachian blue violet, also known as Appalachian violet and Henry's violet is a Viola native to the Appalachian Mountains in the Eastern United States. [2] [3]
Many star names are, in origin, descriptive of the part in the constellation they are found in; thus Phecda, a corruption of Arabic فخذ الدب ( fakhdh ad-dubb, 'thigh of the bear'). Only a handful of the brightest stars have individual proper names not depending on their asterism; so Sirius ('the scorcher'), Antares ('rival of Ares ', i.e ...