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Language of flowers. Floriography ( language of flowers) is a means of cryptological communication through the use or arrangement of flowers. Meaning has been attributed to flowers for thousands of years, and some form of floriography has been practiced in traditional cultures throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Hanakotoba (花言葉) is the Japanese form of the language of flowers. The language was meant to convey emotion and communicate directly to the recipient or viewer without needing the use of words. The language was meant to convey emotion and communicate directly to the recipient or viewer without needing the use of words.
Language of flowers – cryptological communication through the use or arrangement of flowers; Hanakotoba, also known as 花言葉 – Japanese form of the language of flowers; List of national flowers – flowers that represent specific geographic areas
Viola is a genus of flowering plants in the violet family Violaceae. It is the largest genus in the family, containing over 680 species. Most species are found in the temperate Northern Hemisphere; however, some are also found in widely divergent areas such as Hawaii, Australasia, and the Andes. Some Viola species are perennial plants, some are ...
Parma violets belong to the more exotic branch of the violet family. First appearing in Italy, in the 20th century, most types of parma violets have lavender flowers of varying sizes, which have an attractive fragrance. The origins of the parma violet are unknown, though they have been shown to be derived from two different Viola alba strains ...
The garden pansy ( Viola × wittrockiana) is a type of polychromatic large-flowered hybrid plant cultivated as a garden flower. [ 2] It is derived by hybridization from several species in the section Melanium ("the pansies") [ 3] of the genus Viola, particularly V. tricolor, a wildflower of Europe and western Asia known as heartsease.
L. 19th-century illustration. Lily of the valley ( Convallaria majalis ; / ˌkɒnvəˈleɪriə məˈdʒeɪlɪs / ), [ 2] sometimes written lily-of-the-valley, [ 3] is a woodland flowering plant with sweetly scented, pendent, bell-shaped white flowers borne in sprays in spring. It is native throughout the cool temperate Northern Hemisphere in ...
Violaceae is a family of flowering plants established in 1802, consisting of about 1000 species in about 25 genera. It takes its name from the genus Viola, the violets and pansies . Older classifications such as the Cronquist system placed the Violaceae in an order named after it, the Violales or the Parietales.