Impatiens in burst of color
by Lingfai Leung
Title
Impatiens in burst of color
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Lingfai Leung
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
Impatiens is a beautiful annual that makes an excellent houseplant or summer bedding plant. It is also known as "Busy Lizzie" and its name is a Latin word that describes the way its seeds shoot out of its pods when ripe (the slightest touch can make a ripe impatiens seed pod burst open and scatter its seeds).
Common names include impatiens, jewelweed, touch-me-not, and, for I. walleriana in Great Britain, "busy lizzie", as well as, ambiguously, balsam. As a rule-of-thumb, "jewelweed" is used exclusively for Nearctic species, "balsam" is usually applied to tropical species, and "touch-me-not" is typically used in Europe and North America).
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March 20th, 2013
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