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So, on my last bio lab quiz, one-tenth of the quiz depended on two questions, what was your favorite lab and what flower would you give to the person you love?
Tehehe, I don't know about giving flowers to a significant other because to me, that's individual to the person (but I would probably avoid roses). So I decided to write down my favorite, dicentra spectabilis, but from it's common name--bleeding heart--and looks, I thought that would be rather inappropriate. I wrote down hibiscus instead.
Though, I looked up the meanings and perhaps a bleeding heart is more appropriate. In Victorian Flower Language, Bleeding Hearts apparently stand for "Undying Love," which in a way makes sense--it's a perennial shaped liked a heart. And hibiscuses apparently means "Delicate Beauty" and I would not want to give that to someone with that meaning in mind, guy or girl. I don't think the average American girl can appreciate the words "delicate" being associated with her, let alone a guy.
"Yeah!" for my favorite flower being romantic. And for random over share, my other favorites are water lillies, lotuses, and a flower I do not remember the name of (I only knew it by it's scientific name and I forgot it because it's complex). The unknown flower has an open face with three short petals on the top and two longer ones on the bottom and is pink and white. (And it's a eudicot, but if you know that term, you can tell from the petals, hehehe.)
EDIT: I put in a bit more effort (aka surf TrekNature) and guess what I found? My odd plant--Saxifraga stolonifera, aka yukinoshita, or Creeping Saxifrage, Strawberry Saxifrage, and Creeping Rockfoil (according to wiki.)
Tehehe, I don't know about giving flowers to a significant other because to me, that's individual to the person (but I would probably avoid roses). So I decided to write down my favorite, dicentra spectabilis, but from it's common name--bleeding heart--and looks, I thought that would be rather inappropriate. I wrote down hibiscus instead.
Though, I looked up the meanings and perhaps a bleeding heart is more appropriate. In Victorian Flower Language, Bleeding Hearts apparently stand for "Undying Love," which in a way makes sense--it's a perennial shaped liked a heart. And hibiscuses apparently means "Delicate Beauty" and I would not want to give that to someone with that meaning in mind, guy or girl. I don't think the average American girl can appreciate the words "delicate" being associated with her, let alone a guy.
"Yeah!" for my favorite flower being romantic. And for random over share, my other favorites are water lillies, lotuses, and a flower I do not remember the name of (I only knew it by it's scientific name and I forgot it because it's complex). The unknown flower has an open face with three short petals on the top and two longer ones on the bottom and is pink and white. (And it's a eudicot, but if you know that term, you can tell from the petals, hehehe.)
EDIT: I put in a bit more effort (aka surf TrekNature) and guess what I found? My odd plant--Saxifraga stolonifera, aka yukinoshita, or Creeping Saxifrage, Strawberry Saxifrage, and Creeping Rockfoil (according to wiki.)