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500px provided description: Native to the Mediterranean, poppy-flowered anemone is a tender, often short-lived perennial with showy flowers in late winter, early spring, or a few months after its bumpy tubers are planted. Introduced before 1927, the cultivar 'Hollandia' has large, single, scarlet flowers with 5 to 8 segments. Borne on calf-high stems above clumps of divided, ferny leaves, the solitary, poppy-like blooms have a large dark central disc and a white eye.

An entire genus including 120 different species is all included under the scientific name Anemone. These flowers are also commonly called windflowers, and this second name is derived from the etymological meaning. Anemone comes from the Greek word of the same spelling, which means ?the wind?s daughter?. It is the combination of anemos, the word for wind, and the suffix -one, which indicates a female offspring or daughter. It gained this name because of myths involving the Greek gods of the four winds, but the meanings of the flower are also tied to the story of Adonis and Aphrodite. The Goddess of love kept Adonis as her companion for too long and the other gods killed him, so she wept over his grave and her tears for her fallen love grew into Anemone flowers. [#red ,#macro ,#flora ,#anemone ,#Hollandia ,#Anemone Coronaria ,#Hollandia Crown Windflower ,#Anemone Coronaria 'Hollandia']