#persian buttercup

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lucy.ketchum

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orange persian buttercups with forget me nots

2024/05/05

[throughthemeadowflowers]

Chicago Botanic Garden, April

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[rubbishraven]

a visit to New Orleans🍊

A Roman Holiday- by Frank Skipworth, 1889 (New Orleans Museum of Art)

[flowerishness]

Ranunculus asiaticus (Persian buttercup)

Let’s face it, Persian buttercups are just plain beautiful - and that’s not just my opinion. In March 2023, Canada Post issued two lovely Persian buttercup stamps (see photo number 4, copied from the Canada Post website). However, the original wildflower species looks nothing like any of these exotic, modern hybrid varieties.

In the Eastern Mediterranean, Ranunculus asiaticus has a single row of five petals. Modern hybrids demonstrate quite extreme doubling which means a lot more than just twice as many petals (as you can see). Doubling is a very rare mutation in wildflowers but by gardeners selectively breeding, generation after generation over thousands of years, you end up with this type of beautiful ‘monstrosity’.

Incidentally, the wild five petal Ranunculus asiaticus is so rare in its original habitat that it’s protected in many places, including Israel.

[teruriphoto]

Title:Ranunculus like a Rose

Ranunculuses, or Persian buttercups Like white roses Shine in platinum While giving us A kind of refreshment In the fall.

These flowers are For those you love, and I…

ラナンキュラスは ホワイト・ローズのように 白く輝いていた。

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[lionqueensarabi]

Ranunculus and Peonies are both so divine it's a shame I can't tell them apart 🌸🪷

[mothmiso]

Zypern (2) (3) (4) (5) by tombomba2

[gonnabeapinupgirl]

Yesterday I had a really shitty day. I had lost my phone on an Uber drive and I hadn't heard back from the driver at all. My SO is currently back home, half across the world and I miss him terribly. I was really down at work and kicking myself. Then I heard the door go (usually means it's a customer) so I appeared from the back. The guy asks me by my name, I say yes. Then he hands me this huge pink bouquet parcel. I was stunned, like are you sure? He hesitated a bit and was like yeees... *patting his pockets, found a note* from "my SO's name".

It also had the sweetest note in my first language (he can speak it but we usually speak in English). I almost started crying right then and there. They are one of my favorite flowers, the Persian buttercups.

Once in a lifetime movie character moment right there.

[awakeningthevioletswithin]

"You Spin Me 'Round" Watercolor on Black Paper 2023, 22"x 30" White Ranunculus

[justtrevormann]

Saw @ssseriema’s sphinx hotguy comm for @stiffyck and was inspired to draw some buttercup kitties of my own.

Click for better quality, normal outfits under the cut.

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ranunculus asiaticus

2024/05/05

[throughthemeadowflowers]

Chicago Botanic Garden, April

[royaa]

[coffeenuts]

HOT PINK RANUNCULUS... by magda indigo https://flic.kr/p/2orVJ9c