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Learn more about the origins, meaning and history behind the birth flowers for February and what they symbolize today.
Month: February; Flower: Violet Resilient in nature, these common houseplants bloom during the depths of winter. During the Regency era, a gift of violets was a declaration of true intentions.
Iris is a flowering plant genus of 310 accepted species [1] with showy flowers.As well as being the scientific name, iris is also widely used as a common name for all Iris species, as well as some belonging to other closely related genera.
Galanthus nivalis: Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, 1885. Galanthus (from Ancient Greek γάλα, (gála, "milk") + ἄνθος (ánthos, "flower")), or snowdrop, is a small genus of approximately 20 species of bulbous perennial herbaceous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae.
Daphne mezereum, commonly known as mezereum, mezereon, [2] February daphne, spurge laurel or spurge olive, [3] is a species of Daphne in the flowering plant family Thymelaeaceae, native to most of Europe and Western Asia, [4] north to northern Scandinavia and Russia.
Botany pros and floral shop owners share the meanings behind birth month flowers, from January's carnations and snowdrops to December's holly.
Leonardo da Vinci drew O. umbellatum and included the plant in one of his depictions of Leda and the Swan (1508–1515), in which the flowers are held in Leda's left hand. [41] [42] In folklore, the biblical star of Bethlehem is said to have fallen to the earth and shattered into pieces which became the ubiquitous white flowers. [24]
The showy, salver to cup-shaped, single or clustered actinomorphic flowers taper off into a narrow tube; the flowers emerge from the ground, and can be white, yellow, lilac to dark purple, or variegated in cultivars. The flower tube is long, cylindrical and slender, expanding apically. The floral tube is long and narrow with 6 lobes in 2 whorls.