Anna Soperさんのイラストまとめ

Noted botanist J. Christ strikes again... 🌿 via @GBIF @NYBG @NYBGHerbarium

The Still-folk of central Germany hoard gold, silver, and precious stones. Mortals may access these chambers using a Key-flower (Schlüsselblume). #FolkloreThursday [Art by Tove Jansson via @MoominOfficial]

On the Isle of Man, it is believed that if you step on a patch of St. John's Wort at sunset, a fairy horse will rise from the earth.🐴 It will happily carry you around all night before depositing you in your usual haunts at sunrise! #FolkloreThursday

Last year, I made 'A Flora of Kingston', featuring some of the wild plants (native and introduced) I've found in #KingstonON. #YGKFlora #YGK #NaturePhotography

3/3 *That* is playing the long game! [Rosa 'Madame Isaac Pereire', Journal des Roses, 1893]

2/ On Christmas morning, the bag would be silently unwrapped, and the rose placed in the lady's bosom for church. The first man who either asks about the rose or plucks it from her bodice (cheeky!), will be her husband. #FolkloreThursday [From Lindley's history of roses]

1/ Cornish ladies used roses for divination. Walking backwards into a garden on Midsummer's eve (as you do), they would pick a rose, then place it in a bag... [A plate from 'Flora Londinensis', by William Curtis.] #FolkloreThursday #PlantLore

@SILibraries @BioDivLibrary @britishmuseum In the Victorian language of flowers, purple lilacs symbolize the 'first emotions of love'. #FolkloreThursday 'La plante et ses applications ornementales' (1896) via @BioDivLibrary @SILibraries https://t.co/IBaAk5FIHT

"If apples bloom in March, in vain for them you'll search. If apples bloom in April, why then they'll be plentiful. If apples bloom in May, you may eat them night and day." [Oldenburg apple, via USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection @National_Ag_Lib] #FolkloreThursday

In Newfoundland, a dwy is a mist or fine shower. #FolkloreThursday [Etchings by David Blackwood]