posted on November 17, 2009 06:30:56 PM
The anemone is my favourite flower, and they are usually just single petals and bold colors. I thought the flower looked like a wild rose, but it doesn't look as if it's growing on a bush.I thought it also looks like a camelia, but they have shiny waxy looking leaves, not the frondy ones pictured here, these look more like poppy leaves.
posted on November 18, 2009 05:13:36 AM
Sometimes on these wonderful handpainted pieces the artist took license with flowers and combined their favorite parts of a flower to create one.
posted on November 18, 2009 05:19:52 AM
"ANEMONE , or windflower. The anemone is a flower of the buttercup family. The plants grow two or three feet high with their leaves on the flower stem. They bloom in the spring, summer, and autumn. Usually, only one flower grows on a stem. The leaves are usually divided, with sharply cut edges.
The wood anemone is the most common variety in North America, growing even in high mountain areas. One species, known as the pasqueflower, is the South Dakota state flower. The anemone also grows in England and Central Europe. Perhaps one of the most unusual varieties is the Japanese anemone, which grows up to three feet high and has flowers about three inches across.
The wild type is either white or white tinged with pink. Cultivated varieties, and even pink wild varieties growing in the shade, may have pink, rose, red, or even purple blossoms that are often two inches wide. Under cultivation, the petallike sepals are numerous and form double flowers. The slender, green stem of the woodland plants creeps along the surface of the ground. Many of the cultivated types have very short, thick root tubers from which new plants grow. The plants come up each year from the same rootstock and, for this reason, are called perennials."
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I agree though that the leaves look more poppy like.
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posted on November 18, 2009 05:38:00 AM
Thanks neglus. I grow anemones, and they have yet to grow to 2-3 feet tall, 6" is about all mine reach. I also have the perennial wood anemones, but they don't look much like the others. I can't say I have ever seen a wild one.
RS Prussia pieces do seem to have a lot of poppies in their decoration, none quite like mine, but the leaves look very similar, so I think that is what I am going to call them.
I agree pmelcher, but some of these RS decorations are very life-like, especially the water liies and roses.
