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Blush blankets. Vibrant fuchsia apparel. Pink roses. Dusty rose carpets. Let us count the ways we love pink. Pink is more than just a gorgeous hue. It’s a symbol of love, beauty youthfulness and ...
Close up of flower. Dianthus plumarius is a compact evergreen perennial reaching on average 30–60 centimetres (12–24 in) in height. The stem is green, erect, glabrous and branched on the top. The leaves are opposite, simple, linear and sessile, more or less erect and flexuous, with a sheath embracing the stem. They are about 3 millimetres ...
Caryophyllaceae, commonly called the pink family or carnation family, is a family of flowering plants. It is included in the dicotyledon order Caryophyllales in the APG III system, alongside 33 other families, including Amaranthaceae, Cactaceae, and Polygonaceae. [1] It is a large family, with 81 genera and about 2,625 known species. [3]
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 .
It later made its way into the titles of albums, such as Groovy Decay, a 1982 album by Robyn Hitchcock, and Groovy, Laidback and Nasty, a 1990 album by Cabaret Voltaire. Examples of band names include Groovy Aardvark from Canada, The Groovy Little Numbers from Scotland, and Groovy Rednecks and the Flamin' Groovies from the US. There was also a ...
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]
A gilliflower or gillyflower (/ ˈ dʒ ɪ l i ˌ f l aʊ. ər /) [1] is the carnation or a similar plant of the genus Dianthus, especially the Clove Pink Dianthus caryophyllus. [2] Its botanical name is Matthiola incana, also known as stock. [3] The same name also describes other plants, such as the wallflower, which have fragrant flowers
The colors range from the common pink to white with shades of yellow in the centre of the flower. [ 4 ] [ 18 ] Initially tubular before opening out, the flowers are 5–7.5 cm (2–3 in) in diameter, and only rarely go on to produce seed - 20-60 winged seeds are contained in a 17.5 cm (7 in) pod. [ 12 ]