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He taught Hyacinthus the use of the bow and the lyre, the art of prophecy, and exercises in the gymnasium. [14] One day, Apollo was teaching him the game of discus [15] or quoits. [16] They decided to have a friendly competition by taking turns to throw the discus. Apollo threw first, with a strength so great that the discus split the clouds in ...
Hyacinthus / ˌ h aɪ ə ˈ s ɪ n θ ə s / [1] is a small genus of bulbous herbs, spring-blooming perennials. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] They are fragrant flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae , subfamily Scilloideae [ 4 ] and are commonly called hyacinths ( / ˈ h aɪ ə s ɪ n θ s / ).
The Apollo butterfly has many subspecies around the world, and some European subspecies are showing an alarming decline in numbers. This is mainly caused by habitat destruction, air pollution affecting the insect's food plants, and butterfly collectors. The Apollo butterfly is also more vulnerable to predators as it spends two years as a ...
The Apollo jewel butterfly (Hypochrysops apollo apollo) lays its eggs on the plant, and because they smell like ant's eggs, the ants carry the eggs inside the plant, where they develop to the butterfly stage. Hypochrysops is a genus of "blues", butterflies in the family Lycaenidae, which is notorious for its myrmecophily. Accordingly, it is ...
The mistletoe plant [citation needed] is ambiguously claimed to be a food source for at least some species of Hypochrysops. [citation needed]This might be so, but raises some questions because most Lycaenidae have parasitic or mutualistic, often highly specific, relationships with various species of ants, and ants have been reported to carry the eggs of the Apollo jewel butterfly (Hypochrysops ...
Sedum lanceolatum is almost the sole host plant of the Rocky Mountain apollo butterfly (Parnassius smintheus) in large parts of its range. [27] The plant produces a deterrent cyanoglycoside, sarmentosin, so that herbivores do not feed on it. This butterfly's larvae sequester sarmentosin from the plant for their own defense. [28]
[5] [6] [7] The myth is similar to that of Apollo and Hyacinthus, and may indeed be a variation or modelled after it thereof. [7] In his translation of Nonnos' Dionysiaca, W.H.D. Rouse describes the tale of Crocus as being from the late Classical period and little-known. [8]
Scilloideae is sometimes treated as a separate family Hyacinthaceae, named after the genus Hyacinthus. Scilloideae or Hyacinthaceae include many familiar garden plants such as Hyacinthus (hyacinths), Hyacinthoides (bluebells), Muscari (grape hyacinths) and Scilla and Puschkinia (squills or scillas). Some are important as cut flowers