Dying Confederate
by Kathy Clark
Title
Dying Confederate
Artist
Kathy Clark
Medium
Photograph - Photographic Art
Description
This flower is called a confederate rose and is a hibiscus. This is the legend of the confederate rose:
Confederate Roses were pure white. During the Civil War, a soldier was fatally wounded in battle. He fell upon the rose as he lay dying. During the course of the two days he took to die, he bled more and more on the flower, till at last bloom was covered with his blood. When he died, the flower died with him. Thereafter, the Confederate Rose opens white, and over the course of the two days the bloom lasts, they turn gradually from white to pink to almost red, when the flower finally falls from the bush.
This is actually called a cotton rose, hibiscus mutablis.
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May 26th, 2017
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