Tuesday, July 3, 2007

#7: 2 July — Fuchsia

This native plant of South America and New Zealand has just started blossoming along with the summer. Its name is in honor of Leonhard Fuchs, a German physician and one of the founding fathers of botany. The color fuchsia, hence, originates from this flower’s color.

This flower has filaments dangling as pendulums surrounded at the top by a purple inner rim of petals. The color purple symbolizes spirituality, creativity, mysticism, intuition, and beauty.

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