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what is your favorite flower and why?

Qre:us

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I like Jasmine because of their smell:
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I like lotus (not to be confused with water lilies) because of how grandoise they look and because they wade in the water. I'm a water baby! They also smell nice.

Esp. blue lotus:
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Lotus:
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I like lotus (not to be confused with water lilies) because of how grandoise they look and because they wade in the water. I'm a water baby! They also smell nice.

Are you a Buddhist or a Muslim?

I mean, how is you social background?

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As a matter of fact, I do not find the lotus flower to be very interesting. The leaves, however, have fascinating properties.
 

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Do you mean what religion is followed by my parents?

I mean: what is your cultural background.

I already know you pretend everywhere to be an atheist, but I would be curious to see how some symbols and values continue to permeate the so-called atheistic Qre:us, how they are transmitted and why?

Questions of questions of questions. Even flowers can ask some... Especially Jasmine and Lotus. :yes:
 

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I mean: what is your cultural background.

Hinduism, with a sprinkle of Bramho Samaj (as contradictory as those two are to each other) - that there is my cultural soup.

I already know you pretend everywhere to be an atheist, but I would be curious to see how some symbols and values continue to permeate the so-called atheistic Qre:us, how they are transmitted and why?

Pretend? Uh...ok. By the way, either you don't know what atheism means or you think that atheists can't take values and symbols from all walks of life (including religions). Either conclusion is wrong.

Questions of questions of questions. Even flowers can ask some... Especially Jasmine and Lotus. :yes:

Obviously not interesting ones...as per your lotus.
 

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I like Jasmine because of their smell:
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I bought the most beautiful jasmine and had to give it away as I couldnt stand the smell. It was like the worst truck stop men's room deoderant spray ever.

Ah, the associations we make...
 

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I bought the most beautiful jasmine and had to give it away as I couldnt stand the smell. It was like the worst truck stop men's room deoderant spray ever.

Ah, the associations we make...

HAHAHAHA!!!

When I smell truck stop men's room on something, I'll wrap it in a bouquet and send to you. (as we seem to have the opposite smell radar)
 

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Peonies! Lush and ethereal at the same time. They sometimes have a too-much-ness about them that I love combined with their delicacy. I could stare at peonies all day.

Booya - what is the third flower in that series? Those grow in my parent's garden, but I don't know what they are...

Jasmine - love the way it smells, too. Qre:us, maybe try A La Nuit (perfume) bu Serge Lutens or Amoreuse by Delrae - the latter if you like your jasmine thick and indolic.

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^ It's a passion flower. (named for the Passion of the Christ, not the interesting kind of passion)

And no I'm not booya, but neither is booya, half the time.

And thanks for making me nauseous with all that putrid pink confection.
(I did like the last one tho)
 

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Hee hee, sorry Blue. I'm quite sad and predictable with my love of all things pink. *rolleyes at self*

Thanks for IDing the passionflower, too. :)
 

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lilac and yellow primroses (both which smell like heaven and last all of two days in tejas)
 

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also honeysuckle...i adore the smell of honeysuckle outside.
 

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Morning glory, because we have them on my front porch step this year... I think. :yes:
 

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I like the bird of paradise
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Strelitzia reginae (South Africa)

and other strange-looking exotic flowers
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Hymenocallis littoralis, the Spider Lily (Mexico)


Passiflora coerulea, the blue passion flower (Eastern USA)
One of the only specie of passion vine able to thrive under a temperate climate. The fruits are edible, but tasteless.

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orchids too

Calliandra emarginata (Mexico), the Powder puff.
It could also be an Archidendron grandiflorum (Australia -almost the same family as the previous [Mimosoideae]), but it's rather unlikely.
 

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The corpse flower...

The titan arum or Amorphophallus titanum (from Ancient Greek amorphos, "without form, misshapen" + phallos, "penis", and titan, "giant")

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It's huge. It's scientific name means giant misshapen penis. It smells like rotten meat and blooms like once a year at most. What's not to love?
 

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This is the coolest looking flower I have ever seen in my life!

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Jasminum sambac (India), the Arabian Jasmine


Despite what the name of the link seems to suggest, this plant is not a Calla, but a Zantedeschia aethiopica (South Africa).


Bauhinia variegata (S-E Asia), the Orchid tree (although genetically, it's not related to orchids at all).
 

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The corpse flower...

It's huge. It's scientific name means giant misshapen penis. It smells like rotten meat and blooms like once a year at most. What's not to love?

One day, you'll grow out of adolescence, you'll see. :rolli:

Even ENTPs can do it.

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But the inflorescence of the Titan Arum is not that awful. You have to get close to it to actually smell something.

Its only contestant, however, is far more repulsive (both in shape, colour, and texture). It's the Rafflesia arnoldii, which happens to grow in the same ecosystem (equatorial rainforests of Sumatra and Borneo).

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This flower is pretty rare in the wild, and unknown in cultivation (it's a parasite). But believe me, you can detect its presence way before you see it. The stench is so powerful it can attract flies miles and miles away.

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But the most awful odour comes from one of the largest known orchids, the Bulbophyllum beccarii, which uses the same trick than our Rafflesia and Arum. Coincidentally (or not), this plant also originates from the jungles of Sumatra and Borneo.
Orchids are more sophisticated and complex than any other family of plants. When they do something, they do it very well. So when one of them wants to smell like a corpse, it's doing it very effectively. The stench of these flowers has been compared to "a herd of dead elephants", and even human noses can detect it one hundred meters away.

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So Ladies, if your loving one says he wants to offer you orchids, beware. If it's a spike of B. beccarii, I'm not sure how you should interpret the message, maybe a call to personal hygiene?
 
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