Spring Crocus
by Lingfai Leung
Title
Spring Crocus
Artist
Lingfai Leung
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
A lovely capture of this freshly open delicate blooms one week before the Easter holiday is also a sign of spring season is arrived.
Crocus is a genus of flowering plants in the iris family comprising 90 species of perennials growing from corms. Many are cultivated for their flowers appearing in autumn, winter, or spring. Crocuses are native to woodland, scrub, and meadows from sea level to alpine tundra in central and southern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, on the islands of the Aegean, and across Central Asia to western China.
The name of the genus is derived from the Greek (krokos), is probably a loan word from a Semitic language, related to Hebrew karkÅm, Aramaic kurkama, and Arabic kurkum, which mean "saffron" ( Crocus sativus), "saffron yellow" or turmeric. The English name is a learned 16th-century adoption from the Latin, but Old English already had croh "saffron". The Classical Sanskrit kunkumam "saffron" (Sushruta Samhita) is presumably also from the Semitic word.
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April 28th, 2014
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