Flowers Of Munnar ( Western Ghats)






Pansy:
Common name: Pansy, Pansy Violet


Botanical name: Viola x wittrockiana
The name pansy is from the French word pensée, meaning thought or remembrance.

The name "pansy" also appears as part of the common name for other Viola species that are wildflowers in Europe.

The Pansy is a hybrid plant cultivated as garden flowers .
Pretty to grow in pots, troughs, or as mass plantings,
These lightly fragrant flowers are available in a vast range of colors.

The pansy flower has two top petals overlapping slightly, two side petals, beards
where the three lower petals join the center of the flower, and a single bottom petal with a small groove.

The dark centers in some flowers are thought to resemble little faces.
(Flowers have big blotches that make them strongly resemble faces)
They grow only six to ten inches high and can spread up to ten to twelve inches across.

Since Elizabethan times, the word "pansy" suggests an effeminate male and
still is used, as a disapproving term for a man or boy who is effeminate.













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