Monday, December 27, 2010

Flower of the Week / 今週の花

Anemone

Anemone is a genus of about 120 species  of flowering plants in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae in the north and south temperate zones. They are closely related to Pasque flowers (Pulsatilla) and Hepaticas  (Hepatica); some botanists include both of these genera within Anemone. Greek anemōnē means "daughter of the wind", from ánemos "wind" + feminine patronymic suffix -ōnē.

Anemone have basal leaves with long leaf-stems that can be upright or prostrate. Leaves are simple or compound with lobed, parted, or undivided leaf blades. The leaf margins are toothed or entire. Flowers with 4-27 sepals are produced singly, in cymes of 2-9 flowers, or in umbels, above a cluster of leaf- or sepal-like bracts. Sepals may be any color. They are bisexual 10 to 200 stamens and have many simple pistils. The pistils have one ovule. The flowers have nectaries, but petals are missing in the majority of species. 

Floriography - Forsaken, sickness, unfading love


アネモネ
アネモネ(学名:Anemone coronaria)はキンポウゲ科イチリンソウ属の多年草。和名はボタンイチゲ(牡丹一華)、ハナイチゲ(花一華)、ベニバナオキナグサ(紅花翁草)。または、アネモネ属(Anemone)の総称を表すこともある。

語源はギリシア語で「風」を意味するΆνεμος (anemos)から。ギリシア神話中に、美少年アドニスが流した血よりこの植物が産まれたとする伝説があり、稀にアドニスと呼ぶこともある。なお、adonisはフクジュソウ属の学名である。

花言葉 - はかない希望 恋の苦しみ 真

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