What is the symbolism of primula malacoides?
Summary: This article discusses the symbolism of primula malacoides, as well as a brief introduction to the flower's language and legends related to green plants and flowers. Next, the editor of this site will introduce it to everyone.
Primula malacoides (Scientific name: Primula malacoides), belonging to the Primulaceae family and Primula genus, is a perennial herbaceous flower, also known as cherry grass, primrose, and annual scenery flower. The leaves are all basal, forming a rosette-like leaf cluster. The flowers come in various colors such as red, yellow, orange, blue, purple, and white, arranged in umbel-like inflorescences, racemes, capitula, or singly in the leaf clusters; the corolla is funnel-shaped or high-footed dish-shaped, the capsule is spherical or cylindrical, and the seeds are numerous and small.
"Primula malacoides" was once a quite pleasant song, with a line in the lyrics "The cherry grass in the lover's hand, hearing the heartbeat in the chest," actually, the legend of cherry grass is also very beautiful.
The flower language of primula malacoides is "No one but you, always together." The origin story of this flower language is also very beautiful, bringing you two romantic legends of cherry grass!
The legend of primula malacoides
Legend One
Primula malacoides is the embodiment of the Greek water goddess's sad love. There was a mute water goddess who fell in love with a handsome young man, but the young man was surrounded by a group of admirers. Unable to express her love, the water goddess could only sadly watch him leave from a distance. Day after day, the life of the water goddess gradually faded away, although she lost her life, her love continued to deeply wait for this young man. Thus, where she died, a lovely little flower grew... This is primula malacoides.
What is the symbolism of primula malacoides?
Legend Two
In Greek mythology, there was a young man named Baralissos, who had a very beautiful fiancée named Meliserta. They looked forward to their wedding day every day, but later, the girl died of an illness, and the young man, overwhelmed by grief, killed himself in pursuit of love. The gods pitied him and turned him into a flower that bloomed next to the girl's grave. This flower is the Western cherry grass.
The above is the symbolism of primula malacoides, a brief introduction to the flower's language and legends, for the reference of green plant enthusiasts, hoping to solve your problems in green plant and flower management.