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Pink flowers are used as a symbol of love and awareness. For decades, pink flowers have been used to decorate weddings as a symbol of love. [1] They can also be used as a display of love at funerals, as demonstrated at the funeral for Anna Nicole Smith. [2] [3] More recently, pink flowers have come to symbolize breast cancer awareness. [4]
Rhododendron periclymenoides, the pink azalea [1] or pinxter flower, is a species of shrub in the heath family Ericaceae. It is native to eastern North America, where it is widespread from Alabama to New Hampshire. [2] It is often found in riparian areas, in wet to dry forests. [3] This species produces showy pink flowers in the spring.
Dipodium roseum is a leafless, tuberous, perennial, mycoheterotrophic herb.Between fifteen and fifty pale pink flowers with small dark red spots and 20–30 mm (0.8–1 in) wide are borne on a green to dark reddish black flowering stem 40–100 cm (20–40 in) tall.
Pink is a pale tint of red, the color of the pink flower. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was first used as a color name in the late 17th century. [ 5 ] According to surveys in Europe and the United States, pink is the color most often associated with charm, politeness, sensitivity, tenderness, sweetness, childhood, femininity, and romance .
Carnation pink is a color that resembles the flower color of a carnation plant. The color as displayed here was formulated by Crayola in 1903, and appears in Crayola's boxes of 16, 24, 32, 48, 64 and 96 colors. The first recorded use of carnation as a color name in English was in 1535. [68] A pink carnation flower
This common evergreen alpine shrub bears its red-purple flower clustered at the end of the stem. [2] The flowers of the Phyllodoce empetriformis can grow in clusters of many to as little as one. [3] The leaves alternate on the stem and roll under themselves so tightly they resemble pine needles.
Dianthus superbus, the fringed pink or large pink, is a species of Dianthus native to Europe and northern Asia, from France north to arctic Norway, and east to Japan; in the south of its range, it occurs at high altitudes, up to 2,400 m.
Form albiflora has white flowers. The plant blooms from June to September with fragrant pink (occasionally white) flowers that are up to 2.5 centimetres (1 in) across. [7] The flowers have 5 petal-like obovate lobes. Yellowish triangular markings on the inner edge of the lobes give the appearance of a star in the middle of the flower. [4]