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English writer Penelope Fitzgerald's historical novel The Blue Flower is based on Novalis's early life. [7] In John le Carré 's 1968 novel A Small Town in Germany , the character Bradfield says, "I used to think I was a Romantic, always looking for the blue flower" (Pan edition, p. 286 – chap. 17).
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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.
A blue rose is a flower of the genus Rosa (family Rosaceae) that presents blue-to-violet pigmentation instead of the more common red, white, or yellow, through use of artificial means such as dyes. Blue roses are often used to symbolize mystery or the unattainable, [ 1 ] since they do not exist in nature because of genetic limitations.
Plumbago auriculata, the Cape leadwort, [2] blue plumbago or Cape plumbago, is a species of flowering plant in the family Plumbaginaceae, native to South Africa and Mozambique. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The specific epithet auriculata means "with ears", referring to the shape of the leaves.
Illustration from Floral Poetry and the Language of Flowers (1877). According to Jayne Alcock, grounds and gardens supervisor at the Walled Gardens of Cannington, the renewed Victorian era interest in the language of flowers finds its roots in Ottoman Turkey, specifically the court in Constantinople [1] and an obsession it held with tulips during the first half of the 18th century.
Oxypetalum coeruleum is a species of flowering plant, native to South America from southern Brazil to Uruguay.The synonymous name Tweedia caerulea is also used. Growing to 100 cm (39 in) long, [2] it is a straggling evergreen perennial with heart shaped, gray-green, downy leaves.