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The colour of the blue flower hyacinth plant varies between 'mid-blue', [21] violet blue and bluish purple. Within this range can be found Persenche, which is an American color name (probably from French), for a hyacinth hue. [22] The colour analysis of Persenche is 73% ultramarine, 9% red and 18% white. [23]
Dipodium atropurpureum, commonly known as the purple hyacinth orchid, is a mostly leafless mycoheterotrophic orchid that is endemic to New South Wales. In summer it has up to forty dark pinkish purple to reddish purple flowers with darker spots and blotches on a tall flowering stem.
The colour of the hyacinth flower ranges from violet blue to a bluish purple (though the hyacinth species dominant in the eastern Mediterranean, Hyacinthus orientalis, is violet [25]), and the word hyakinthos was used to describe both blue and purple colours. [25] Early rabbinic sources provide indications as to the nature of the colour.
Common names include camas, quamash, Indian hyacinth, camash, and wild hyacinth. [citation needed] It grows in the wild in great numbers in moist meadows. They are perennial plants with basal linear leaves measuring 20 to 80 centimetres (8 to 32 in) in length, which emerge early in the spring. They grow to a height of 30 to 130 cm (12 to 50 in ...
Hyacinth is a variant form of the given name Hyacinthe.The name is derived from a Greek word meaning the blue larkspur flower or the colour purple. [1]English variant forms include Hyacintha or Hyacinthia.
Dipodium stenocheilum O.Schwarz - tropical hyacinth-orchid, from the northern parts of Western Australia, the Northern Territory, and Queensland. Dipodium variegatum M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones - blotched hyacinth-orchid or slender hyacinth-orchid, from Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria; Dipodium wenzelii P.O'Byrne - from Borneo
Camassia scilloides is a perennial herb known commonly as Atlantic camas, wild hyacinth, [1] and eastern camas. [3] It is native to the eastern half of North America, including Ontario and the eastern United States.
Dipterostemon is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae.Its only species is Dipterostemon capitatus, synonym Dichelostemma capitatum, [2] known by the common names blue dicks, wild hyacinth, [3] purplehead and brodiaea (alternately spelled brodiea and brodeia [4]), native to the Western United States (particularly Arizona, California, Oregon, Utah, and New Mexico) and ...