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Bairnwort

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Description

Bellis perennis Common names: Common Daisy, Lawn Daisy, English Daisy Bellis could mean pretty or it could mean war, and the fact that nobody can agree on which is kind of the whole story of this flower. Roman army surgeons ordered slaves to gather sacks of them before battle. The juice was squeezed out and used to soak bandages for sword and spear wounds, which is why one of its oldest names is bruisewort. It's a close relative of arnica, the most famous wound healer in European herbalism, and they share enough chemistry that the daisy was called poor man's arnica for centuries. In Shakespeare, Ophelia names it while handing out flowers to the court but keeps the daisy for herself, gives it to nobody, because there was no innocence left in that room worth receiving it. In Scotland it's bairnwort, bairn meaning child, because children made crowns from them on May Day to prevent fairies from stealing them away. There was a folk belief that feeding a puppy daisy juice mixed with milk would stop it from ever growing. And medieval doctors used it for eye problems, because the flower center looks like an eye, which was the Doctrine of Signatures at its most literal. The yellow disk is actually hundreds of individual flowers packed together, pretending to be one. © 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

common daisy

Tag

lawn daisy