Named for a German botanist, it's a brilliant deep pink color tinged with purple
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Perennial from Sandy's Plants  Our catalog, arranged by botanical names, contains descriptions and cultural ... Large green foliage sets off tall stems of deep purple flower heads. Blooms ..... Beautiful mix of colors that include pale pink, lavender, red, or purple. ... Spikes of brilliant purple flowers with a white throat appear in droves from July to November.
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DR. HENRY NEHRLING (1853 - 1929), By: Derek Butcher  At present another most beautiful Bromeliad sails under its name. This is even a better grower and the colors are just as brilliant, but the beauty ... This is one of the oldest Bromeliads in cultivation, for Loddiges figured it in the "Botanical Cabinet" ..... the face, tinged with dark purple and pink and conspicuously cross-banded...
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Basic Color Theory.docx  However, there are three basic categories of color theory that are logical and useful ... When something is not harmonious, it's either boring or chaotic. ... you will see that the small purple rectangle on the left appears to have a red-purple tinge ... fuchsia - was derived from the name of a German botanist, Leonard Fuchs.
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fuchsia - Dictionary Definition : Vocabulary.com  Fuchsia is a deep pink color named after a tropical flower. ... The plant fuchsia got its name from the German botanist, Leonard Fuchs, who first discovered it.
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J! Archive - Show #4522, aired 2004-04-13  Apr 13, 2004 ... It's always this song when my marriage counselor puts me on hold .... Named for a German botanist, it's a brilliant deep pink color tinged with...
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Rosa 'American Beauty' - Wikipedia  'American Beauty' is a deep pink rose cultivar, bred by Henri Ldchaux in France in 1875, and was originally named 'Madame Ferdinand Jamin'. Contents. [hide]. 1 Description; 2 History; 3 Symbol; 4 References. Description[edit]. The hybrid perpetual has cup-shaped flowers with a brilliant crimson colour ... The buds are thick and globular and open to strongly scented, hybrid tea-like...
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Plant Profile for Lavandula angustifolia 'Twickel Purple' - English ...  This selection features spikes of deep purple flowers. P... ... Lavandula angustifolia 'Twickel Purple' ... Lavandula angustifolia 'Dwarf Blue' ... Lavender also demands very good drainage and will perish in heavy, wet clay soils. ... Foliage Color
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The Edelweiss Plant, Flower and Song  Everthing about the lovely Edelweiss Plant and Flower, Die Edelweiss Blume. ... Edelweiss: the Noble White flower (from the German edel=noble, weiss=white) The genus name means "lion's foot" and refers to the shape and woolly aspect of ... from the Alps. And in Switzerland the Edelweiss plant and flower is protected by...
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The History and Legacy of the China Rose < QuarryHill Botanical ...  The China rose is actually a complex of natural and cultivated hybrids that ... The same pink China may also be the subject described in 1678 by ... Its wild ancestor was discovered nearly one hundred and fifty years after the ... It is now known that flower color of this wild species varies from almost white to deep crimson.
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Saintpaulia - Wikipedia  Saintpaulia goetzeana  Saintpaulia inconspicua  Saintpaulia ionantha  Saintpaulia pusilla  Saintpaulia shumensis  Saintpaulia teitensis. Saintpaulia flowers. Saintpaulia rupicola = S. ionantha ssp. rupicola. Saintpaulias, commonly known as African violets, are a genus of 620 ... The genus is named after Baron Walter von Saint Paul-Illaire (18601910),...
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Hibiscus Flower Meaning | Flower Meaning  Jun 20, 2016 ... Purple Flowers Meaning ... The Hibiscus Flower: It's Meanings and Symbolism ... They come in a variety of sizes and colors, but most sport five lobed petals ... The flowers received their name from Pedanius Dioscorides, author of one of ... rose mallows because they are members of the mallow plant family.
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Free Flashcards about ZODIAC - StudyStack  PURPLE IS A HARMONIOUS COLOR FOR THIS "CENTAUR" SIGN, SO A PURPLE UNIFORM WOULD LOOK GREAT ON YOU, SAGITTARIUS. THE NAME OF...
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The Story of the Edelweiss (Noble-White) - gerlindenaturals.com  May 21, 2015 ... The common name is derived from the German name edel which ... Lion's Foot, Beautiful Star, Glacier Star, Alpine Everlasting Flower,...
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Gary Gygax's World Builder - Scribd  Appendix F Unusual Names 166 .... consisting of overlapping plates for the fingers, a solid .... sometimes possesses a circular indent to allow for better ...... torsion engine, also called an Onager, named after a wild ...... Hellebore, Green: Also known as Itch Weed or Indian ... the genus papaver with pink and white flowers.
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Leonhart Fuchs : dfinition de Leonhart Fuchs et synonymes de ...  Dfinitions de Leonhart Fuchs, synonymes, antonymes, drivs de Leonhart ... fathers of botany, along with Otto Brunfels and Hieronymus Bock (also called ... Fuchs' name is preserved by the plant Fuchsia, discovered on Santo ... The color fuchsia is also named for him, describing the purplish-red of the shrub's flowers.
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History of African Violets | chimeraav.com  In 1892 Baron Walter von Saint Paul-Illaire, the German governor of a ... He named the genus Saintpaulia, in honor of the father and son who had shared their ... one of the world's most popular houseplants not only in the US but in Europe also. ... These wild species vary in all aspects of growth habit and form, and flowers...
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Wood on Words: Words sound as good as they smell - Hillsdale.net  Jun 25, 2010 ... People attending a dance who just stand or sit around watching are ... Violet comes from the Latin for the flower, viola. ... That must be really old. ... Finally, the gardenia is named not for just any garden, but for A. Garden, says Webster's. ... his work didn't really involve the genus that bears his name.
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American Beauties Plant Shopping List  Easy to identify by its distinctive, nodding, pastel lilac-pink flowers in late spring, ... Brilliant copper-red fall color Provides food and nesting for many birds Superb for ... has handsome gray to blue-green stems in spring turning to green with a touch of red ..... Oxeye daisy seed is a prime source of food for songbirds in winter.
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What's The Deal With Verdigris?  A Brief History of A Very Old Color  Jan 29, 2014 ... ... you've seen verdigris in nature; it's the greenish-blue patina that forms on copper, ... The name comes from the French "vert de gris," which roughly ... approximation of the former "vert de Grce" (green of Greece) but it would...
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Chartreuse: Red or Green? (and other colors)  Mandela Effect  Feb 15, 2015 ... Seems like too pretty of a name for lime green. ... I myself remember it being the red/pink/purple color only and not the yellow/green that ...... The word comes from the French for flea, presumably from the reddish ..... I also don't like wikipedia's definition: Scarlet is brilliant red color with a tinge of orange.
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J! Archive - Show #4947, aired 2006-02-28  This unusual primate with a "double talk" name is the only surviving member of its family .... On October 15, 1839 she proposed to a prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha ... To honor a Cherokee leader who died in 1843, a European botanist proposed this name for a tree...