One more, while I’m thinking about it. Officianalis is derived from officina, the Italian word for the storeroom in a monastery where potions and salves were kept. It is therefore a plant with a medicinal use.
Isn’t snapdragon so much more poetic than antirrhinum? Out of curiosity I have been looking up what it is called in other languages. In Swedish and Italian it is a lion’s mouth, in German a lion’s muzzle and in French a wolf’s mouth.
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I have just done the same for forget me not and, disappointingly, it is the same in every language I looked at but with one exception - Finnish. There the plant translates as ‘loved pet’.
Being a fan of the original Star Trek series, I couldn't pass up a hosta named "Vulcan", even though it wasn't much different from other varieties I have. My mother purchased a hosta named "Hans" as that was her beloved Dutch Shepherd's name, and has a daylily named "Little Maggie" which was her long ago Beagle's name. For my birthday one year she gifted me daylily "Bela Lugosi" as I'm also a fan of classic horror movies. When my father-in-law passed away she gifted my ex-husband a daylily named "Highland Lord" to honor him. I regret not getting a division of that one, as it's a gorgeous double red and looked fantastic with red bee balm.
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