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A snapdragon's dried seed capsules can look like tiny skulls upside down, giving the cheerful flower a surprisingly spooky after-bloom disguise.
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sunflowerFind to reveal
Young sunflowers swing east to west each day following the sun, but the heads stop and face east once the plant matures.
carnationFind to reveal
During Portugal's 1974 revolution, carnations appeared in soldiers' rifle barrels, turning an ordinary garden flower into a remembered symbol of political change.
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A buttercup's glossy petals can reflect sunlight toward the flower's center, acting like tiny mirrors that may help warm its reproductive parts.
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Lavender takes its English name from the Latin root for washing, because the dried flowers once scented bath water and clean linens.
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In Mexico, bright orange marigolds are scattered each November to guide returning spirits home during the Day of the Dead.
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Hibiscus flowers can open for only a day, so a plant's long flowering season may depend on a steady succession of buds.
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The magnolia is an ancient flowering plant, and fossil relatives show it bloomed before bees existed, likely pollinated by beetles.
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Chinese tea makers pick jasmine closed in the morning and wait until evening, when the flowers open and the perfume is strongest.
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Some orchids imitate female insects so convincingly that males visit them, carrying pollen away after mistaking a flower for a mate.
True stories · Davis, California
Sunflowers in tune with the sun
On a research farm in Davis, California, plant biologist Stacey Harmer wondered why young sunflowers swing their heads from east to west each day, then back again overnight. Her team tied stems in place, twisted some pots around, and tracked growth on opposite sides of each stalk. The pattern was clear: cells on one side grow faster by day, the other side by night, which gently tips the head along. Once the plants mature, that motion stops and the heads settle facing east. Warmer morning faces drew more bees, the team reported in 2016, so plants locked east-facing got many more visits than plants turned the other way.
Where flowers bloom, so does hope.
Lady Bird Johnson
Trivia
Which flower is the symbol of the Japanese imperial family?
The chrysanthemum.
Vanilla flavoring is harvested from the pod of which family of flowering plants?
The orchids (vanilla orchid).
Which red flower became a symbol of remembrance after the First World War?
The poppy.
Which flower did Anna Jarvis pick to honor her late mother and so to mark Mother's Day?
The white carnation.
Which plateau in Provence is famous for its sweeping fields of purple lavender?
The Plateau de Valensole.
Trivia · 1 / 5
Which flower is the symbol of the Japanese imperial family?
The chrysanthemum.
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A river of ceramic poppies
In the summer of 2014, ceramic artist Paul Cummins and stage designer Tom Piper began filling the dry moat of the Tower of London with red clay poppies. Each poppy commemorated a British or colonial military death in the First World War. Volunteers planted them by hand week after week until the count reached 888,246. The work was called Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red, and by the time the last poppy went in on Armistice Day in November, more than five million visitors had come to see it. Many of the poppies were later sold and the money was shared among armed-forces charities.
Earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sources: Stargazer lily and Leslie Woodriff (Wikipedia) · Iris (plant), name and Florentine emblem (Wikipedia) · In Flanders Fields and the remembrance poppy (Imperial War Museums) · Dahlia, national flower of Mexico (Wikipedia) · Orchidaceae diversity (Wikipedia) · Tagetes erecta (Mexican marigold) and Day of the Dead (Wikipedia) · Lavender etymology (Online Etymology Dictionary) · Yellow hibiscus, state flower of Hawaii since 1988 (List of US state flowers, Wikipedia) · Jasmine tea production, night-opening flowers (Wikipedia) · Day of the Dead, cempasúchil to guide spirits (Wikipedia) · Peony longevity and ant nectar (Wikipedia) · Honeysuckle, edible nectar in tubular flowers (Wikipedia) · Snapdragon (Antirrhinum) dragon-mouth mechanism (Wikipedia) · Sunflower heliotropism, Harmer lab Science 2016 · Mother's Day, Anna Jarvis and the carnation (Library of Congress) · Chrysanthemum Throne (Wikipedia) · The Tower of London remembers (Historic Royal Palaces) · Lady Bird Johnson: flowers and hope quotation · Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hamatreya (Poetry Foundation)
Word list, facts & trivia researched and compiled by Sam Letterman — spotted a mistake? Tell us and we’ll fix it.