What is your favourite flower?

[MadMikael]

Just curious.. did you perhaps guess, that mine is the Common Dandelion?

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Here's some info I found on the 'net.

• Taraxacum officinale, the common dandelion (often simply called "dandelion"), is a flowering herbaceous perennial plant of the family Asteraceae (Compositae).
  It can be found growing in temperate regions of the world, in lawns, on roadsides, on disturbed banks and shores of water ways, and other areas with moist soils. T. officinale is considered a weed, especially in lawns and along roadsides, but it is sometimes used as a medical herb and in food preparation. Common dandelion is well known for its yellow flower heads that turn into round balls of silver tufted fruits that disperse in the wind called "blowballs" or "clocks" (in both British and American English)

Interesting facts, copied from a popular medical website:

• Dandelion is used for many conditions, but so far, there isn’t enough scientific evidence to determine whether or not it is effective for any of them.
  Dandelion is used for loss of appetite, upset stomach, intestinal gas, gallstones, joint pain, muscle aches, eczema, and bruises. Dandelion is also used to increase urine production and as a laxative to increase bowel movements. It is also used as skin toner, blood tonic, and digestive tonic.
  Some people use dandelion to treat infection, especially viral infections, and cancer.
  In foods, dandelion is used as salad greens, and in soups, wine, and teas. The roasted root is used as a coffee substitute.

IMO, if humans ever go to Mars, they should grow weeds, like the Dandelion.

• Definition of grow like a weed
  • chiefly US, informal
    : to grow very quickly
    Look at you! You're growing like a weed!

Taken from a popular gardening facts website:
Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)

• This suburban lawn scourge boasts a truly useful nature. Flowers (minus the green parts) are edible and have more beta-carotene than carrots. Add them to salads, bread and fry them, or ferment into a fruity wine. Young leaves offer the mildest flavor and are a gourmet salad green, rich with vitamins. Harvest the roots, dry, roast and brew them for a coffee substitute.

IMO, since a weed grows quickly, that weeds are resilient and grow anywhere, that Dandelions have such great usages and vitamins, and make oxygen through photo-synthesis, they are the perfect weed or plant to try and grow on Mars.


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Curious as to the replies I will get. What is your favourite flower?

[ardesia]

Artichoke :: beautiful and tasty

Wikipedia tells us: the globe artichoke (Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus) is a variety of a species of thistle cultivated as a food.
The edible portion of the plant consists of the flower buds before the flowers come into bloom. The budding artichoke flower-head is a cluster of many budding small flowers (an inflorescence) together with many bracts, on an edible base.

Receiving artichokes, gives you the joy of receiving flowers without reaching that sad moment when you have to throw them away after a while: they are going to be eaten long before

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Passion fruit :: could be arriving from outer space

Wikipedia: Passiflora edulis is a vine species of passion flower that is native to southern Brazil through Paraguay to northern Argentina. Its common names include passion fruit or passionfruit (English), maracuya (Spanish), grenadille or fruit de la passion (French), maracujá (Portuguese) and lilikoʻi (Hawaiian).

It's flowers are very particular, and might have several different colors. The plant is of the climbing type, thanks to its many tendrils (like the one in the second picture).

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[WARBRINGER]

Personally, I love Roses - That is all there is to say really

[Arashiko]

Fuschia
Both a colour (soft pink) and a flower
Many different varieties exist after much experimentation and cross breeding

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[Ryaca]

Corpse flower
Carrion flowers, also known as corpse flowers or stinking flowers, are flowers that emit an odor that smells like rotting flesh. Carrion flowers attract mostly scavenging flies and beetles as pollinators. Some species may trap the insects temporarily to ensure the gathering and transfer of pollen.

[Cleopatra]

Personally, I love Roses - That is all there is to say really

My favorite as well it's my middle name ^_^

[Ledo]

I don't know the englesh name of this flower, but in my country is named Clematita(Clematis). I love this flower because every time i see it it make me happy!

[Arashiko]

It's Clematis in English too. And it's lovely