#flowerlore — Public Fediverse posts
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Crocuses in Waterlow Park.
According to Greek myth, a youth named Crocus had an affair with a nymph called Smilax. He became unhappy with the relationship and the gods turned him into a plant (and Smilax into a yew tree).
Others think Crocus unalived himself when the gods refused permission for him to marry Smilax. Flora, goddess of flowers, turned them into plants out of pity.
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Pulmonaria, aka lungwort! So named because people thought the spotted leaves looked like diseased lungs, and in the Doctrine of Signatures, a plant part resembled the body part it was believed to treat.
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Primroses meant 'early youth' in the Victorian language of flowers, according to Mrs Burke's Language of Flowers dictionary.
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