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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.
Dichelostemma multiflorum is a species of flowering plant known by the common names round-tooth snake-lily, many-flower brodiaea and wild hyacinth (although the latter name is shared with a number of other taxa).
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 ...
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]
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.
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 ...
Dipodium roseum, commonly known as rosy hyacinth-orchid [3] or pink hyacinth-orchid, [4] is a leafless saprophytic orchid found in east and south-eastern Australia.In summer it produces a tall flowering stem with up to fifty pale pink flowers with small, dark red spots.
When treated as a subfamily, the name Scilloideae is derived from the generic name of the type genus, Scilla, and is attributed to Gilbert Thomas Burnett in 1835. [1] When treated as a family, the name Hyacinthaceae is derived from the type genus Hyacinthus, and is usually attributed to August Batsch from ("ex") a 1797 publication by Moritz Borkhausen.