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Various folk cultures and traditions assign symbolic meanings to plants. Although these are no longer commonly understood by populations that are increasingly divorced from their rural traditions, some meanings survive.
Irezumi (入れ墨, lit. ' inserting ink ') (also spelled 入墨 or sometimes 刺青) is the Japanese word for tattoo, and is used in English to refer to a distinctive style of Japanese tattooing, though it is also used as a blanket term to describe a number of tattoo styles originating in Japan, including tattooing traditions from both the Ainu people and the Ryukyuan Kingdom.
Viola primulifolia, commonly called the primrose-leaf violet, [1] is a species of flowering plant in the violet family. It is native to eastern North America, [2] and possibly also to the Pacific Northwest. [3] Its natural habitat is wet acidic areas that are usually at least semi-open. [4]
Primrose yellow (PY184): bismuth vanadate (BiVO 4). Cadmium pigments. Cadmium yellow (PY37): cadmium sulfide (CdS), which also occurs as the mineral greenockite. Chromium pigments. Chrome yellow or crocoite (PY34): lead chromate (PbCrO 4). Cobalt pigments. Aureolin or cobalt yellow (PY40): potassium cobaltinitrite (K 3 Co(NO 2) 6). Iron pigments
They can be recognized by their star-like appearance due to the separated petals or their deep violet-blue spurs. [3] [9] Pollination can occur via insects, self-pollination, or cross-pollination. [4] Its seeds have rather thick cotyledons to nourish the embryo, and the fruits that develop around them usually have 3 lobes. [1]
Illustration from Floral Poetry and the Language of Flowers (1877). According to Jayne Alcock, grounds and gardens supervisor at the Walled Gardens of Cannington, the renewed Victorian era interest in the language of flowers finds its roots in Ottoman Turkey, specifically the court in Constantinople [1] and an obsession it held with tulips during the first half of the 18th century.
Primrose Azelhart (Japanese: プリムロゼ・エゼルアート, Hepburn: Purimuroze Ezeruāto) is a fictional character in the 2018 video game Octopath Traveler, where she serves as one of its eight protagonists. She was designed by character designer Naoki Ikushima, and is a dancer seeking information about the murder of her father and the ...
UV tattoos or blacklight tattoos are tattoos made with dyes that fluoresce visibly under a blacklight or other ultraviolet (UV) light source. Depending upon the tattoo ink used, an ultraviolet tattoo can be nearly invisible when illuminated only by light within the visible spectrum.