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 Magnoliidae
► Order Papaverales
► Family Papaveraceae - Poppy family
► Subfamily Papaveroideae
► Genus Papaver L. - Poppy
Synonyms
Papaver atropurpureum Gilib.
Papaver intermedium Becker
Common names
Common poppy (English)
Common red poppy (English)
Corn poppy (English)
Field poppy (English)
Flanders field poppy (English)
Flanders poppy (English)
Poppy (English)
Red poppy (English)
Shirley poppy (English)
Coquelicot (French)
Grand coquelicot (French)
Pavot des champs (French)
Pavot rouge (French)
Ponceau (French)
Mák (Czech)
Kornvalmue (Danish)
Klaproos (Dutch)
Silkkiunikko (Finnish)
Feuer-Mohn (German)
Klatsch-Mohn (German)
Klatschrose (German)
Kornrose (German)
Wolder Mohn (German)
Pipacs (Hungarian)
Papagna (Italian)
Papavero (Italian)
Papavero comune (Italian)
Papavero salvatico (Italian)
Scattarola (Italian)
Kornvalmue (Norwegian)
Mak polny (Polish)
Papoila (Portuguese)
Papoila-ordinária (Portuguese)
Papoula (Portuguese)
Papoula comum (Portuguese)
Мак самосейка (Russian)
Ababol (Spanish)
Ababolera (Spanish)
Amapola (Spanish)
Amapola común (Spanish)
Gamapola (Spanish)
Rosillas (Spanish)
Kornvallmo (Swedish)
Pavot des moissons (Switzerland (French))
Rosolaccio (Switzerland (Italian))
Khashkhash bustânî (Arabic)
Khashkhash manthûr (Arabic)
Khas-Khas (India (Hindi))
Yu mei ren (Chinese)
Yu mei ren guo shi (Chinese)
Hinageshi (Japanese)
Kae yang gwi bi (Korean)
Description
Medium-sized showy cup-shaped usually single flower with four wide delicately crinkled satiny petals and a central tuft of numerous stamens; in shades of red, purple, pink, orange and occasionally white; borne singly on long stems. A small erect branching annual herb.
Spontaneous joy of nature
the mighty flood of this Joy of Nature which rushed forward as in a movement of gratitude
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 9. - Questions And Answers (1957)
In the physical the joy of being is the best expression of gratitude towards the Divine.
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 14. - Words of the Mother
In her green wildernesses and lurking depths,
In her thickets of joy where danger clasps delight,
He glimpsed the hidden wings of her songster hopes,
A glimmer of blue and gold and scarlet fire.
In her covert lanes, bordering her chance field-paths
And by her singing rivulets and calm lakes
He found the glow of her golden fruits of bliss
And the beauty of her flowers of dream and muse.
Sri Aurobindo
Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volumes 28-29. - Savitri / Book 2. Canto 1
Nature proves her collaboration with a smile of flowers.
The Mother
The Mother. White Roses: [Letters to Huta] / Compiled by Huta D. Hindocha.- Pondicherry, 1980, P.388.
The trees rise towards the sky, beautiful symbol of Nature's aspiration towards the Light.
The Mother
The Mother. White Roses: [Letters to Huta] / Compiled by Huta D. Hindocha.- Pondicherry, 1980, P.102.