plant

Anemone

Nature

The named windflower of Adonis-blood classical speech. Not poppy as the Lots red field, and not a florist Ranunculaceae catalog dump.

Also known as Windflower · Anemone coronaria

  • Anemone is used in Medicine.

    Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists anemone / windflower (ἀνεμώνη) among sharp juices used for cleansing and skin drugs. A named anemone in that handbook, not Adonis-blood myth as this sentence and not poppy as the neighboring red field already walked.

    from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE

    used in · sourced · documented

Hellenic religion

  • Anemone appears in Hellenic religion.

    Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book 10 turns Adonis’s blood into the anemone after the boar’s wound. A named anemone metamorphosis in that poem, not rose as Venus’s garden speech alone and not every wound-flower dump.

    from Ovid · Metamorphoses, 8 CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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