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The specific epithet atropurpureum, refers to the Latin term of 'deep purple, blackish-purple', [9] referring to the flower colour. The species formerly included; Allium atropurpureum var. hirtulum Regel , which was coined in 1875, [ 10 ] referring to a Central Asian plant, now known as Allium stipitatum Regel.
Cortinarius violaceus, commonly known as the violet webcap or violet cort, is a fungus in the webcap genus Cortinarius native across the Northern Hemisphere. The fruit bodies are dark purple mushrooms with caps up to 15 cm (6 in) across, sporting gills underneath.
The color Byzantium is a particular dark tone of purple.It originates in modern times, and, despite its name, it should not be confused with Tyrian purple (hue rendering), the color historically used by Roman and Byzantine emperors.
The color royal purple is a tone of purple that is bluer than the ancient Tyrian purple. The first recorded use of royal purple as a color name in English was in 1661. [ 11 ]
A Babylonian etiological myth, which Ovid incorporated in his Metamorphoses, attributes the reddish-purple color of the mulberry fruits to the tragic deaths of the lovers Pyramus and Thisbe. Meeting under a mulberry tree (probably the native Morus nigra ), [ 41 ] Thisbe commits suicide by sword after Pyramus does the same, he having believed ...
JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Princess Sofia of Sweden attends the royal banquet to honour the laureates of the Nobel Prize 2019 following the Award ceremony on Dec. 10, 2022
Trillium kurabayashii is a perennial herbaceous plant that persists by means of an underground rhizome.Like all trilliums, it has a whorl of three bracts (leaves) and a single trimerous flower with 3 sepals, 3 petals, two whorls of 3 stamens each, and 3 carpels fused into a single ovary with 3 stigmas. [4]
A baby died after a hospital did not induce labor for more than 60 hours, a lawsuit alleges. Chelsea Wootton, 31, was scheduled to be induced at 41 weeks pregnant, her law firm Irwin Mitchell said ...