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These are lists of flowers. Lists of flowering plants belong in Category:Lists of plants. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. O.
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Narcissus in culture – uses of narcissus flowers by humans. Lime tree in culture – uses of the lime (linden) tree by humans. Rose symbolism – a more expansive list of symbolic meanings of the rose. Apple (symbolism) – a more expansive list of symbolic means for apples.
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.
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (/ ˌ æ n dʒ i ə ˈ s p ər m iː /), [5] [6] commonly called angiosperms.They include all forbs (flowering plants without a woody stem), grasses and grass-like plants, a vast majority of broad-leaved trees, shrubs and vines, and most aquatic plants.
Stamens range in number, size, shape, orientation, and in their point of connection to the flower. [11] [12] In general, there is only one type of stamen, but there are plant species where the flowers have two types; a "normal" one and one with anthers that produce sterile pollen meant to attract pollinators. [13]
This is a list of U.S. state, federal district, and territory flowers. State federal district or territory. Common name. Scientific name. Image. Year. Alabama. Camellia (state flower) Camellia japonica.
LG: derived from a Greek word (G), a Latin word (L), another language (–), or a personal name (P) Ba: listed in Ross Bayton's The Gardener's Botanical[4] Bu: listed in Lotte Burkhardt's Index of Eponymic Plant Names[5] CS: listed in both Allen Coombes's The A to Z of Plant Names and William T. Stearn 's Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for ...