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Journal of Experimental Botany 2009 60(12):3297-3299; doi:10.1093/jxb/erp247
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© The Author [2009]. Published by Oxford University Press [on behalf of the Society for Experimental Biology]. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Plant Culture

Symbolism of plants: examples from European-Mediterranean culture presented with biology and history of art

SEPTEMBER: Cornflower

Riklef Kandeler1 and Wolfram R. Ullrich2,*

1Institute of Botany, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Gregor Mendelstr. 33, 1180 Wien, Austria
2Institute of Botany, Darmstadt University of Technology, Kirchbergweg 6, D-64287 Darmstadt, Germany

* To whom correspondence should be addressed: E-mail: ullrichcw@online.de

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   SEPTEMBER: Cornflower
 
Who does not admire the beautiful blue of the cornflowers in summer cornfields and later in field margins and open places? Cornflowers are symbols of very old traditions, especially that of reanimation due to their annual revival with the growing crop. The authors chose cornflower for the end of summer and as a plant that has followed agriculture since the Stone Age. Its annual persistence reminds us of the cultural ebb and flow of mankind throughout the centuries.


   Biology
 
Centaurea cyanus and related species, commonly called cornflowers, are members of the Asteraceae-Tubuliflorae, having flowers with tubular corollas in . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Symbolism
 

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