#fritillaria

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Saturday 30 March 2024

Creating spikes of cream flowers in the courtyard of the Garden Museum was Fritillaria pallidiflora (Siberian fritillary).

Jill Raggett

#fritillaria #Siberian fritillary #cream flowers #bulbous #perennial #Garden Museum #london #plants #horticulture #gardens #garden

[fleur-aesthetic]

instagram | permillion44

#flowers #floral #fritillaria #blossoms #aesthetic #red #purple

[geopsych]

Now blooming in the back garden, crown imperial fritillaries. Fritillaria imperialis. The rest of the garden has yet to be cleaned up. You can see by the leaves how dry it is right now.

#pennsylvania #flowers #spring bulbs #garden #april #fritillary #fritillaria #crown imperial #fritillaria imperialis

[lycomorpha]

Califlora - polychromos pencil over watercolour

Still one of my favourite drawings, but I love the test sheet too. When I make commissions, I draw two identical outlines on the same acid-free paper. One sheet gets used to test everything & becomes like that damaged portrait in the Oscar Wilde book, while the other becomes the nice shiny final artwork. Once the finished piece has shipped, the test sheet is the part I get to keep. I return to these sheets again and again, to relearn ways to draw difficult subjects.

I live in the UK and probably won't ever meet the Californian wildlife in this drawing for real. So it was cool to get to research parasitic plants, fritillaries, etc from somewhere else in the world!

#fungi #fungus #botany #botanical art #botanical #sciart #art and science #plants #parasite #parasitic plants #snow plant #pinedrops #ground cone #weird plants #cool plants #moth #moths #fritillary flower #fritillaria #fritillaries #pencil art #pencils #pencil drawing #coloured pencils #colour pencil drawing #colour pencil #watercolour #color pencil #watercolor #drawing

[pickleweed2]

A beautiful patch of Checker Lilies, Fritillaria affinis, in Oregon White Oak (Quercus garryana) / Black Oak (Quercus kelloggi) woodland, above the Trinity River.

#Fritillaria #Checker Lily #Lillium #forest floor #Oak Woodland #Trinity River #six rivers national forest #spring #botany #public lands #Klamath Mountains #Northern California #beautiful nature #naturecore #flower photography #macrophotography #botany photography #nature photography #original photographers #nikon photography #nikon #105mm #photographers on tumblr

[halljavalge]

Source: emma_crawforth

ℍ𝐚𝓵ｌ נ𝐀 𝔳คĻǤẸ

#fritillaria

[nkp1981]

Fritillaria

#Fritillaria #flower #flowers #nature

[golvio]

Here’s an aborted WIP of my attempt at designing a Malice-themed flower to contrast with the Silent Princess. The reference I used was a photo of Fritillaria camschatcensis. It’s called the Kamchatka lily, rice lily, or chocolate lily, but it’s not actually in the lily family, but an evolutionary relative known as the fritillary. One of the key things that distinguish fritillaries from their lily cousins is that their main pollinators are flies and other carrion seeking insects, not bees. To attract pollinators, rather than producing sweet nectar, the flowers give of a scent that smells like decaying meat, tricking the flies into coming to it and covering themselves with pollen while trying to figure out where the yummy food is. This scent is why they’re known colloquially as “stink lilies” or “outhouse lilies.”

However, they’re called “rice lilies” by the indigenous peoples of Alaska because their bulbs, which are made up of multiple “rice grains” that come apart when the mother root is dug up, are edible. In fact, since these flowers bloom in winter, they’re a reliable source of starch and were highly prized by people weathering the harsh winter storms in the areas they grow. These flowers also grow in Hokkaido, and the Ainu people regarded these nourishing plants as a symbol of love, with people trying to help a young couple get together secretly placing these flowers near a young person looking for love. Whoever near that person reached for the flowers first would be that person’s soulmate.

However, the Yamato Japanese regard these flowers in hanakotoba as a symbol for “cursed love,” due to their association with the story of the samurai Sassa Narimasa and his lover, Sayuri, whose name contained the characters for “lily.” According to the legend, Sayuri was Sassa’s concubine, who loved him faithfully but was slandered by the other concubines in the household who were jealous of the attention she received from the master of the house. Sassa, who became convinced by the rumors that Sayuri was being unfaithful, brutally murdered her and her entire extended family in a jealous rage. Outraged by her beloved’s betrayal, her soul lingered by the river where she died and became a frightful apparition called a furaribi. At the moment of her death, the white lilies on the manor grounds all turned black, becoming kuroyuri or “black lilies.” They served as an eternal reminder of Sassa’s crimes and Sayuri’s dying curse, condemning her former love to a life of failure and misery.

The flower’s double-meaning clouded by colonialist incursion, plus its association with both curses and death and life and love persevering in the harshest of climates, suited Ganondorf. Furthermore, it felt fitting to have the foil to Zelda’s signature flower, which resembles a “true lily” that produces nectar, be a so-called “false lily” that doesn’t produce nectar and is associated with less-prized-by-humans but still ecologically important animals like flies. Also, the fact that it’s native to colder climates and blooms in winter makes it feel like you could find this flower around the snowy Gerudo Highlands. It was part of a fic idea born from speculation about his backstory/origins in BotW that I’ve currently got on the backburner.

#long post #my art #legend of zelda #loz thoughts #ganondorf #princess zelda #silent princess #botw #totk #flowers #kamchatka lily #fritillaria

[love-for-carnation]

A page from 'Aquarelle von Säugetieren, Vögeln, Insekten und Pflanzen samt deutschen Legenden', Süddeutschland, 1600s

#dianthus #carnation #17th century art #botanic illustration #botanicart #aquilegia #fritillaria

[inkwood-art]

#OC #original character #comics #webcomic #flower #fairy tales #girl #woman #meleagride #bossolodeidadi #fritillaria

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Sunday 19 March 2023

The pale yellow flowers of Fritillaria raddeana (Radde’s fritillary, dwarf crown imperial) produce a final flourish for the Winter Garden at Cambridge Botanic Garden. This bulbous perennial is native to Iran, Turkmenistan and Kashmir.

Jill Raggett

#fritillaria #Radde’sfritillary #dwarfcrownimperial #bulbous #perennial #plants #creamflowers #writtledesign #gardens #horticulture #garden #cambridgebotanicgarden #wintergarden

[markentwisle]

Snake’s head fritillary #fritillaria #snakesheadfritillary #botanicalart #flowerpainting #watercolour #workonpaper #watercolor (at Crouch End, North London) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqMGVW_I3Bj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#fritillaria #snakesheadfritillary #botanicalart #flowerpainting #watercolour #workonpaper #watercolor

[lycomorpha]

Sometimes good drawings emerge from the shitshower of my sketchbooks. Sometimes it's just shit.

The older I get, the more likely it is that I'm able to pull flowers out of all that crap, but don't think the carnage isn't there.

The mess & internal screaming is always just a page flip away.

(Felt like I was precariously walking a line between the shit and the shiny art today. Eeeep.)

The drawings are for a miniature of Fritillaria affinis aka checker-lily in polychromos pencil over watercolour, btw. Tiny drawing, big sketchbook mess 🙃

#sciart #botany #botanical art #fritillary #fritillaries #fritillaria #plants #flowers #drawing #pencils #pencil art #pencil drawing #colour pencil #colour pencil drawing #color pencil #colored pencils #colored pencil #watercolour #watercolor

[sweetpeaslut]

Tulipina Design

#flowers #floral design #floral arrangement #spring flowers #poppy #ranunculus #fritillaria #tweedia #gloriosa #butterfly ranunculus #grapes #still life

[locallostsoul]

#checkerboard flower #flower #plants #fritillaria #botanical garden #MY PICS

[lknapp]

Bild des Tages: Fritillaria

#frühling #garten #pflanze #blüte #natur #kgv lehmfeld #fritillaria #schachbrettblume #offenbach-bieber