University of Dayton2 年
Flowers' Religious Names
Noting the large number of religious popular or common plant names recorded, Johannis Bauhin wrote "De Plantis A Divis Sanctisve Nomen Habentibus" ("Plants Which Have Various Holy Names") in Basil in ...
The Fascinating Origins of 12 Beautiful Flower Names
Sea anemones took their names in the late 1700s on their likeness to the flowers. In the pastoral poems of Theocritus, Ovid, ...
Mid-Day on MSN5 个月
Chronicles of common flowers
It is precisely this uniting power of these common flowers that prompted Dr Mayur Nandikar to make a special appeal to ...
University of Dayton2 年
Flowers and Religious Names, Origins of
Vast numbers of Latin American plants were given religious names in this way by European missionaries. Notable in this respect is the American plant, Tagetus, now commonly known as Marigold (MaryGold) ...
Daily Express13 天
Gardening expert names four flowers everyone should be growing in the next few months
Writing in the latest edition of Garden News, the horticulturist started his list of go-to flowers with the Sunflower ... I go for the common, humble primrose. No other plant so perfectly ...