[12/22] 백일홍 [百日紅, 백일초; Zinnia elegans]

[12/22] 백일홍 [百日紅, 백일초; Zinnia elegans]

학명(學名, binomial name): Zinnia elegans
이명: 百日紅, 백일초, common zinnia, garden zinnia, youth-and-age, elegant zinnia
계(界, Kingdom): 식물계(Plantae)
문(門, Division): 속씨식물문, 현화식물문(Magnoliophyta, Anthophyta), 피자식물문(Angiospermae)
강(綱, Class): 쌍떡잎식물강(Dicotyledoneae), 목련강(Magnoliopsida)
목(目, Order):  초롱꽃목, 국화목(Asterales)
과(科, Family): 국화과(Asteraceae)
속(屬, Genus): 백일홍속(Zinnia)
종(種, Species): Zinnia elegans
개화: 6월~10월; 검정색, 녹색, 자주색, 파란색, 붉은색, 흰색, 황색 등 여러 가지 색
생활형: 한해살이풀

꽃말: 행복(happiness); 이별한 친구 생각(to remember an old friend), 떠나간 님을 그리다(to yearn after a departed lover); 인연(因緣, relationship)

쌍떡잎식물 초롱꽃목 국화과의 한해살이풀.

백일홍이란 꽃이 100일 동안 붉게 핀다는 뜻을 가지며 백일초라고도 부릅니다. 백일기도를 하던 처녀의 넋이 꽃으로 피어났다고 하여 백일홍이라 불렀다고도 합니다.

카니발에서는 춤추는 사람에게 백일홍을 떼어 던지기도 한답니다

부처꽃과에 속하는 갈잎 떨기나무인 배롱나무의 꽃을 백일홍이라고도 하는데 이것은 다른 식물입니다.

Image: Zinnia elegans | CC-PD | Date: 12 September 2007 | Author: Rob Hille assumed | Source: Wikimedia Commons in the public domain (CC-PD) | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zinnia_elegans_0.03_R.jpg

Image: Zinnia elegans | CC-PD | Date: 11 August 2018 | Author: Zythème | Source: Wikimedia Commons in the public domain (CC-PD) | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zinnia_elegans_queen_lime,_1.jpg

Image: Zinnia elegans | CC-PD | Date: 11 August 2018 | Author: Zythème | Source: Wikimedia Commons in the public domain (CC-PD) | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zinnia_elegans_queen_lime,_4.jpg

Image: Zinnia | Unsplash | Date: Unknown | Author: Diane Helentjaris | Source: Unsplash | https://unsplash.com/photos/VXz3ABxN2ng

Photo by Diane Helentjaris on Unsplash