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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.
Eremophila mackinlayi, commonly known as desert pride, is a flowering plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae and is endemic to Western Australia.It is a shrub with its branches and leaves covered with a thick layer of yellow to grey hairs, mostly egg-shaped leaves and deep lilac-coloured to purple flowers.
Antigonon leptopus is a species of perennial vine in the buckwheat family commonly known as coral vine or queen's wreath.This clambering vine is characterized by showy, usually pink flowers that can bloom throughout the year and large, heart-shaped leaves.
The spathe can be up to 25 cm high and the fruiting spike which follows later in the season may be up to 5 cm. [5] The flowers are hidden from sight, clustered at the base of the spadix with a ring of female flowers at the bottom and a ring of male flowers above them. The leaves may be either purple-spotted (var. maculatum) or unspotted (var ...
Eucalyptus albopurpurea, commonly known as the purple-flowered mallee box or Port Lincoln mallee, [3] is a mallee or sometimes a tree that is endemic to South Australia.It has loose, fibrous grey-brown bark on the lower park of the trunk and smooth grey bark that is shed in strips on its upper parts.
This plant is native to Europe and western Siberia, [6] where it grows in semi-shaded areas like open woods, the edges of denser forests, and meadowland. [3] It has been introduced to North America, where it has become an extremely invasive weed; [7] it chokes out other plants, and eliminating it is nearly impossible due to its multiple propagation mechanisms.
Hardenbergia violacea is a prostrate or climbing sub-shrub with wiry stems up to 2 m (6 ft 7 in) or more long. The leaves are egg-shaped to lance-shaped, 30–100 mm (1.2–3.9 in) long and 10–50 mm (0.39–1.97 in) wide on a petiole about 10 mm (0.39 in) long.
Close-up on purple-reddish blooms and blue flowers. Aegonychon purpurocaeruleum is a bushy plant that reaches on average 20–60 centimetres (7.9–23.6 in) of height, with a maximum of 70 centimetres (28 in). The stem is hairy, erect and unbranched. Leaves are dark green and lanceolate to narrow elliptic, with a prominent midrib on the underside.