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2. Shades of purple - Wikipedia

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   Shades of purple. There are numerous variations of the color purple, a sampling of which is shown below. In common English usage, purple is a range of hues of color occurring between red and blue. [1] However, the meaning of the term purple is not well defined. There is confusion about the meaning of the terms purple and violet even among ...

3. Shades of violet - Wikipedia

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   The term violet has different meanings in different languages, countries and epochs. Even among many modern speakers within the English-speaking world there is confusion about the terms purple and violet. [2] The blue-dominated spectral color beyond blue is referred to as purple by many speakers in the United States, but this color is called violet by many speakers in the United Kingdom. [3][4 ...

4. Lavender (color) - Wikipedia

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   Lavender is a light shade of purple or violet. It applies particularly to the color of the flower of the same name. The web color called lavender is displayed adjacent—it matches the color of the palest part of the flower; however, the more saturated color shown as floral lavender more closely matches the average color of the lavender flower as shown in the picture and is the tone of ...

5. Violet (color) - Wikipedia

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   Violet is closely associated with purple. In optics, violet is a spectral color (referring to the color of different single wavelengths of light), whereas purple is the color of various combinations of red and blue (or violet) light, [5][6] some of which humans perceive as similar to violet.

6. Lavandula - Wikipedia

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   Lavandula (common name lavender) is a genus of 47 known species of perennial flowering plants in the mints family, Lamiaceae. [1] It is native to the Old World, primarily found across the drier, warmer regions of mainland Eurasia, with an affinity for maritime breezes. [2] Lavender is found on the Iberian Peninsula and around the entirety of the Mediterranean coastline (including the Adriatic ...

7. List of colors by shade - Wikipedia

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   Violet refers to any colour perceptually evoked by light with a predominant wavelength of roughly 380–450 nm. Tones of violet tending towards the blue are called indigo. Purple colors are colors that are various blends of violet or blue light with red light.

8. Periwinkle (color) - Wikipedia

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   Periwinkle is a color in the blue and violet family. Its name is derived from the lesser periwinkle or myrtle herb (Vinca minor) which bears flowers of the same color. The color periwinkle is also called lavender blue and light blue violet. [2] The color periwinkle may be considered a pale tint of purple-blue in the Munsell color system, or a ...

9. Lavandula angustifolia - Wikipedia

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   Lavandula angustifolia, formerly L. officinalis, is a flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, native to the Mediterranean (Spain, France, Italy, Croatia etc.). Its common names include lavender, true lavender and English lavender[2] (though it is not native to England); also garden lavender, [3] common lavender and narrow-leaved lavender.