540 — Number of the plant
at the book: The Mother. The Spiritual Significance of Flowers.- 1-st Ed. / Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Pondicherry (India).- Singapore: Ho Printing, 2000.- ISBN 81-7058-609-7
Classification
► Division Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
► Class Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
► Subclass Asteridae
► Order Asterales
► Family Asteraceae [= Compositae] - Aster family
► Genus Centaurea L. - Knapweed
Synonyms
(=) Cyanus segetum Hill
Common names
Bachelor's button (English)
Blue-bottle (English)
Cornflower (English)
Garden cornflower (English)
Bleuet (French)
Centaurée (French)
Centaurée bleuet (French)
Kornblume (German)
Description
Small soft mildly fragrant semi-double compositae flowers composed of tiny tubular frilled ray florets in blue, purple, pink and white; borne singly. A slender annual herb with greyish cottony hairs on leaves.
Our idealism is always the most rightly human thing in us, but as a mental idealism it is a thing ineffective. To be effective it has to convert itself into a spiritual realism.
Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 15. - Social and political thought
