Gerbera (gaabera)

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Gerbera (gaabera)

***** Location: Japan, UK
***** Season: All summer
***** Category: Plant

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Explanation


gaabera ガーベラ Gerbera
This flower represents endurance and patience.
Its name reminds of the Japanese word gaman がまん【我慢】, self-control, perserverance



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Gerbera L. is a genus of ornamental plants from the sunflower family (Asteraceae). It was named in honour of the German naturalist Traugott Gerber, a friend of Carolus Linnaeus.

It has approximately 30 species in the wild, extending to South America, Africa and tropical Asia. The first scientific description of a Gerbera was made by J.D. Hooker in Curtis's Botanical Magazine in 1889 when he described Gerbera jamesonii, a South African species also known as Transvaal daisy or Barberton Daisy.

Gerbera is very popular and widely used as a decorative garden plant or as cut flowers. The
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Worldwide use



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Things found on the way


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HAIKU

heavy downpour
a hover-fly goes deeper
into gerbera

Alan Summers, UK
1. Haiku Friends Vol. 3 Ed. Masaharu Hirata Osaka, Japan (2009)
2. (JULY) Haiku Calendar 2006

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gerbera daisy
in the brides bouquet...
how long will the marriage last?

Pat Geyer
Joys of Japan, February 2012


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Related words


kigo for mid-autumn




***** shion 紫苑 (しおん) Michaelmas daisy
oni no shikogusa しおに、鬼の醜草（おにのしこぐさ）
Aster tataricus

Its symbolic meaning is "love of change".

murasaki shion color 紫苑色 しおんいろ
color code #867ba9



武蔵野の風の行きつく紫苑かな
Musashino no kaze no ikitsuku shion kana

the wind of
Musashino comes here
to this aster
　　　　　
桜庭敏子




丈高きことが淋しく花紫苑　　　　　　　　　

遠藤梧逸



kigo :
. Michaelmas
Feast of Michael and All Angels


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