Tezos

Rosmarinus

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Description

Salvia rosmarinus "Prostratus" Common names: Prostrate Rosemary, Creeping Rosemary Rosmarinus means dew of the sea. The whole name is a description of how the plant looks growing wild on Mediterranean cliffs, covered in sea spray. There's a Christian legend that the flowers were white until the Virgin Mary threw her blue cloak over a rosemary bush while fleeing to Egypt, and they turned blue permanently. Greek students braided it into their hair during exams because it was supposed to strengthen memory, and a modern study actually confirmed that people working in rooms pumped with rosemary scent performed better on memory tasks, though with slower recall. Ophelia hands it out while going mad. There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Mourners in Europe threw sprigs into open graves. Australians pin it to their chests on Anzac Day because rosemary grows wild on the Gallipoli Peninsula where thousands of them died. In Spain they scatter it on cathedral floors during Holy Week. In Asia it's used as a medium for contacting the dead. Sixteenth century husbands in England used to rip it out of their gardens because the saying went, where rosemary flourishes the lady rules. The plant can live thirty three years, which in Christian tradition corresponds exactly to the life of Christ, and then it dies. © 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.

Traits

Tag

rosemary

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purple