Tezos

Presumption

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Description

Antirrhinum majus Common name: Snapdragon Every language gave this flower a different animal. Dragon in English, Löwenmäulchen in German which means little lion's mouth, gueule de loup in French which is wolf's mouth, and the Greeks couldn't even agree among themselves, calling it both nose-like and dog-headed. Same flower, four animals, depending on who was looking. When the bloom dries out and drops its seeds, the pod left behind looks exactly like a tiny human skull, rows of them hanging upside down on the stem. Medieval Europeans planted snapdragons around city borders as protection against curses. Women wore them in their hair to signal they were unavailable. Pliny wrote that rubbing the blossoms on your skin would make you irresistible, which has never been confirmed. And only bumblebees can get inside, because the petals are too heavy for anything smaller to pry open. The whole flower is a locked door that requires a specific kind of strength to enter. In the Victorian language of flowers, giving someone snapdragons meant presumption, basically telling them they were being too forward. A flower shaped like a mouth, used to tell people to back off. © Corina Daniela Obertas Photography. All rights reserved. The purchase of this NFT grants the collector ownership of the token only. Full copyright, reproduction rights, and commercial usage rights remain exclusively with the artist. No part of this artwork may be reproduced, distributed, printed, licensed, or used for commercial purposes without prior written consent from the artist.

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macro

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snapdragon