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  2. Hibiscus × rosa-sinensis - Wikipedia

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    Hibiscus × rosa-sinensis is a bushy, evergreen shrub or small tree growing 2.5–5 m (8–16 ft) tall and 1.5–3 m (5–10 ft) wide. The plant has a branched taproot. Its stem is aerial, erect, green, cylindrical, and branched. Its leaves are simple and petiolate, with alternate phyllotaxy. The leaf shape is ovate while the tip is acute, and ...

  3. Pink flowers - Wikipedia

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    Pink flowers. 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. Actinotus forsythii - Wikipedia

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    Actinotus forsythii is a wiry herbaceous perennial with stems to 50 cm long, which trail along on the ground. The leaves are 3–7 partite, with the leaf blades from 6.4–18 mm long, by 10 mm wide, on petioles which are 4.5–20 mm long. The umbels are head-like, and from 7.5–20 mm in diameter including the bracts, with the male flowers ...

  5. Pink - Wikipedia

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    Pink is the color [2] of a namesake flower that is a pale tint of red. [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.

  6. Sabatia angularis - Wikipedia

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    S. angularis. Binomial name. Sabatia angularis. (L.) Pursh [2] Sabatia angularis, commonly called rosepink, [3] rose pink, [4] square-stem rose pink[1] or rose gentian[5] is a biennial flowering plant in the Gentianaceae (gentain) family. It is native to central and eastern North America.

  7. Dianthus chinensis - Wikipedia

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    Below the flower stand four bracts, which reach to half of the calyx; they are ciliated and point upward. The calyx forms a cylindrical, 1.5 to 2.5 cm long tube, the corolla reaches 3 to 4 cm in diameter and is serrated at the edge. The color of the petals ranges from white to pink to dark red, the middle is often pigmented darker.

  8. List of plants with symbolism - Wikipedia

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    Hanakotoba, also known as 花言葉 – Japanese form of the language of flowers List of national flowersflowers that represent specific geographic areas Plants in culture – uses of plants by humans Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets

  9. Xiangyun (Auspicious clouds) - Wikipedia

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    Chinese character Qi (气), Spring and Autumn period The clouds physical characteristics (being wispy and vaporous in nature) were associated with the Taoist concept of qi (气; 氣), especially yuanqi, [3]: 133 and the cosmological forces at work; [1] [note 4] i.e. the yuanqi was the origins of the Heavens and Earth, and all things were created from the interaction between the yin and yang.