I found lots of this flower in my recent trip to Shushtar in south of Iran. I still don't know its name in English. The only thing I know is that its wild type is Verbena. In Persian we call it Shah-Passand which means delightful for the king!
I know this flower, but I do not know its name. My grandmother used to have a huge bush of it in her fron yard. We would take the little individual florets and insert them one inside the other to form a chain.
I almost took a picture of this same flower (only in different colours) in a nature reserve overlooking Sydney harbour. I love how each blossom has individual flowers of different colours.
I almost took a picture of this same flower (only in different colours) in a nature reserve overlooking Sydney harbour. I love how each blossom has individual flowers of different colours.
Verbena is a plant steeped in magical lore. One site says it was used by the ancient Persian Magi as an herb of prophecy. Other cutrures have used it as a love potion.
I'm working on a novel in which the heroine is half-Parsi (and half-Scottish-American), who wears verbena perfume partly as a reminder of her Zoroastrian forbears.
I found lots of this flower in my recent trip to Shushtar in south of Iran. I still don't know its name in English. The only thing I know is that its wild type is Verbena. In Persian we call it Shah-Passand which means delightful for the king! 
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beautiful!! Love those colors! I had some of those in my garden here in Buenos Aires, so cool that you have those in Iran, too!!
I know this flower, but I do not know its name. My grandmother used to have a huge bush of it in her fron yard. We would take the little individual florets and insert them one inside the other to form a chain.
I almost took a picture of this same flower (only in different colours) in a nature reserve overlooking Sydney harbour. I love how each blossom has individual flowers of different colours.
I almost took a picture of this same flower (only in different colours) in a nature reserve overlooking Sydney harbour. I love how each blossom has individual flowers of different colours.
Loev these flowers! Have a bush of them on my balcony, no idea what they are called though. Lovely photo!
Verbena is a plant steeped in magical lore. One site says it was used by the ancient Persian Magi as an herb of prophecy. Other cutrures have used it as a love potion.
I'm working on a novel in which the heroine is half-Parsi (and half-Scottish-American), who wears verbena perfume partly as a reminder of her Zoroastrian forbears.
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