#flower post

(Sweet Briar Rose, Eglantine)

Image from English Botany, or Coloured figures of English botany (v.3, 1864) by James Sowerby

History and Etymology: Sweet briar roses are native to parts of Europe and Asia. It's gotten to many other places, and is deemed an invasive species by many, due to how fast it spreads. Portugal actually considers it as an endangered species! There are many derived meanings of "sweet briar", from many different languages such as Old French and Vulgar Latin. All of them essentially come down to meaning "prickly" and "sweet".

Flower Symbolism: The Sweet briar rose most often means "I wound to heal". It also carries meaning of poetry, simplicity, and royalty.

Fun Facts:

This flower is called sweet, because it smells like apples!

Eglantine flowers grow a fruit! They're called rose hips, and they were eaten by British soldiers during WWII for their vitamins.

I actually didn't think this would be the same genus as typical roses! Eglantines only have five petals that barely overlap each other, but they are certainly in the same genus as typical roses!

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The almond blossoms are finally blooming again.🤍

Bermudatale Sans/Archi :  Calycanthus - Benevolence I went with this as a call back to Archi’s comparatively more laid back and gentle nature. While he is just as capable of acting as a judge, he hasn’t often really needed to. And even when he did, he tended to act much earlier, and be more lenient, as the people who washed up didn’t cause much harm, and were truly just scared.

hi!! it started as a self promo but now i just really like the flowers!! i think they’re really pretty and happy and they make me smile. it also helps me track what i’ve already posted because i have a super super hard time remembering. anyone and everyone is absolutely welcome to remove them from the post when they rb it :) i try to keep them off of people’s personal posts as well (for ex. i always make sure to keep them off of @elzear-stims body stim posts) because i feel like that’s really rude and takes away from that persons posts.

(Forget-Me-Not, Scorpion Grass)

Image from English Botany, or Coloured figures of British Plants, by James Sowerby

History and Etymology: Myosotis flowers are often in a baby blue color, but the petals can also be in pinks or yellows. They are in many places within the Northern Hemisphere, mostly within Europe and Asia. There are a couple species within the Americas, Australia and New Zealand, but there are many more native species where they originate. The word "myosotis" is Ancient Greek for "mouse ears", as the petals have a similar shape to them.

Flower Symbolism: Myosotis symbolizes true love, hope, constancy of love, and of course, remembrance, often simply listed as "forget me not". There's not much variation found for this flower, as the name of it alone explains the most common meaning.

Fun Facts:

There are 156 recognized species of Myosotis, but there are over 500 on record! Many of the ones that are not "official" are either hybrids of other species, or simply different names for them.

Forget-Me-Nots are taken as a symbol of many things. It's the official flower of Alaska and Dalsland, Sweden. It's used as remembrance for the Armenian Genocide, the Freemasons that were targeted during WWII, and several other tragedies.

While it's the same meaning, there's a German folktale that provided them with the flowers symbolism: a German knight had been fallen into a river when picking flowers for his lady, and he said the words "forget-me-not!" before he was drowned.

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