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In Chinese and Egyptian cultures, the flower of anemone [which?] was considered a symbol of illness due to its coloring. The anemone [which?] can be a symbol of bad luck in Eastern cultures. The Japanese anemone may be associated with ill tidings. [14] The flowers are featured in Robe violette et Anémones, a 1937 painting by Henri Matisse [20]
Anemone coronaria is a herbaceous perennial tuberous plant growing to 20–40 cm (7.9–15.7 in) tall, rarely to 60 cm (24 in), spreading to 15–23 cm (5.9–9.1 in), with a basal rosette of a few leaves, the leaves with three leaflets, each leaflet deeply lobed.
Various folk cultures and traditions assign symbolic meanings to plants. Although these are no longer commonly understood by populations that are increasingly divorced from their rural traditions, some meanings survive. In addition, these meanings are alluded to in older pictures, songs and writings.
Anemones are said to have grown at Golgotha [3] Columbine: Victory of life over death, thus a plant assigned to Christ, furthermore a symbol of humility, the Holy Spirit and the Holy Trinity: The name "columbine" comes from the Latin for "dove", due to the resemblance of the inverted flower to five doves clustered together. [4] [3] Daisy
The cyclamen won over by a small margin over the Anemone coronaria (6,509 compared with 6,053 votes) in a poll conducted among visitors of the popular Israeli website Ynet. [6] However, in November 2013 the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel ( החברה להגנת הטבע ) and Ynet arranged a larger poll, in which the Anemone ...
The story also provides an etiology for Aphrodite's associations with certain flowers. [41] Reportedly, as she mourned Adonis's death, she caused anemones to grow wherever his blood fell, [32] [41] and declared a festival on the anniversary of his death. [32] In one late account, his blood transformed into roses instead. [43]
Depending on the region, it flowers between March and June. The flowers are about 2 cm in diameter with white calyx. Many stems have two flower stalks characteristically extending from one stem, and this is the origin of the plant's Japanese name (literally, 'two-flowered plant'). The plant spreads with rhizomes, and so it often forms communities.
Anemone hepatica (syn. Hepatica nobilis), the common hepatica, liverwort, [2] liverleaf, [3] kidneywort, or pennywort, is a species of flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, native to woodland in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.