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These heart-shaped blooms have a strong meaning of passionate love and romance, which makes them gorgeous bouquet additions for Valentine's Day. Jacky Parker Photography/Getty Images Alyssum
A bouquet of rainbow roses will brighten anyone's day and are a great gift for birthdays, anniversaries, or graduations as they symbolize happiness, celebration and love in all forms. Shop Now ...
Substance D, a fictitious drug in Philip K. Dick's 1977 novel A Scanner Darkly, is derived from a plant with blue flower. Tennessee Williams used images of blue roses in his play The Glass Menagerie to symbolize the frailty and uniqueness of Laura, a central character that reflects the life of Williams' sister, who underwent a lobotomy. In the ...
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.
A Japanese ikebana flower bouquet in a vase. Beach Wedding Bouquet. The arrangement of flowers for home or building decor has a long history worldwide. The oldest evidence of formal arranging of bouquets in vases comes from ancient Egypt, and depictions of flower arrangements date to the Old Kingdom (~2500 BCE). The sacred lotus, as were herbs ...
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.
Veronica sect. Hebe is a group of plants within the genus Veronica, native to New Zealand, Rapa in French Polynesia, the Falkland Islands and South America. It was formerly treated as the separate genus Hebe (/ ˈ h iː b iː / [1]).