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But hey! Pretty!
When I was very young (we're talking in the 5-11 year old range), the ice cream place closest to us had a "rainbow sherbet" that looked very much like this flower, that I still think of whenever I see dark reddish-purple and orange in close proximity like this.
Calling it "rainbow" when it only had two or three colors was kind of a stretch, obviously, but standards were different back then. We didn't even have red or blue M&Ms. And Lucky Charms "marshmallows" were limited to pink hearts, orange stars, yellow moons, green clovers, and blue diamonds. (Things have gotten more complicated since then.) It was a simpler, more innocent time.
Sometimes I long for those days, but then I remember my layered hair and leg warmers and I'm glad to be fully in 2010.
ReplyDeleteI too, as a non-botanist, am confused about these hybrid names, but it seems the prefix "notho-" is also used in connection with naturally occurring hybrids. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grex_(horticulture)
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