Heart in the Durbante
Like many other plants, the name of the ox's heart has nothing wrong, it has something to throw away and what to spin. Tulipa sp., tulipa is the heart of ox. Someone proposed a new name, duly popularized it and extended it with proper correction, until it did not turn it upside down. I said I smelled of seminars, so I heard ...
Proliferated and extended from Asia Minor, its original name derives from the Persian Latter. Even today it is called halale in Kurdistan and lale in Iran and in Turkey. When the Turkish traffickers wrote this word with the Arab letters of the time of the Ottoman empire, it looked a lot like the word Allah. The smell on the other side of the same cake...
And where the heck is the name of Tulipa from Latin Science? In this sense, the names of another great variety of languages have matured: tulipe, tulip, tulipan, tulipant, tulpe, tulipan... It seems that in northern Europe, in the 16th century, the one that introduced the heart of ox and provoked envy towards it was Oghier Ghislain of Busbecq, ambassador sent to Suleiman I the Excellent, Fernando de Germany I.ak, which raised the Ottoman Empire to the highest level. The story that's watched says the ambassador saw someone wearing a bull's heart on the turban. This one asked the translator next to me what that was, and this one, believing that instead of seeing the flower was talking about the turbant, instead of throwing the flower, calmly threw the turban's tülbend. Casually, it was also the name that came from the shutter, from the word dulband. For others, the shape of the turbant would be that of the ox's heart flower, before its opening, and hence its name. Who knows that! The only thing that has been made clear to me is that the word 'turban' in the Basques comes from the word 'dulband' for the blind. It's not a cabbage leaf.
The heart of ox at the time of that translator was the symbol of empire. This flower had to be on all sides: ceramics, art, stories, verses, clothes... What was the heart of the ox, the drawing of the fabric or the flower that circulated between its folds in that turbine that has remained for the history of botany?
In our latitude the sweat of most plants moves in the spring, and in this time we will enjoy the great blooms. Flowers are the symbol of beauty: to see, to smell... And to try? Did you eat a flower? I'm sure it does.
Who has not eaten artichokes (Cynara cardunculus var... [+]
Lilipak edo nartzisoak loretan dira. Nabarmen adierazten dute mendean hartutako bere lurren berri. Neguan loratzen dira, kolore zuri-hori ikusgarritan, eta usaina bafadaka hedatzen dute. Multzoka bizi dira; lurpean erraboila emankorra dute, eta bat zen tokian, urtetik urtera... [+]
Udari begira jarri gaituen eguraldi honek landareak ederki mugitu ditu. Gu ere bai. Zaldibarren, Eitzaga auzoko zabortegiko madarikazioaren ardurak eskatzera, eta langileei, haien senideei eta auzotarrei babesa emateko manifestazioan Eibarko Amañatik abiatu ginen. Hasi... [+]
I remember as a kid how we called it the "little boy." The flower reminded us of the chicken's head. José María Lakoizketa was named “kurkubia” in Bertizarana in 1888, as its fruit resembles a kurkubi or bottle. He says in Cinco Villas they call him “cascabel.” In 1976... [+]
The danger of plant extinction may have many reasons. In the past, they were divided into three groups: diseases, pests and herbs or “bad” plants. Today, there is a tendency to call plague to all plant disasters. Previously, an accident caused by the proliferation of... [+]
In the pile of manure and waste there is usually a guest in summer, although not always: estrammonium or estrammonium, Datura stramonum. Some have also received the names of “carbonero” or “higuzoro” for this plant. It is a striking, upright plant, with a glowing... [+]
The year of Dalia, the pinnata Dahlia, was chosen this year by the organizers of the festival. Well said, it's the year of Dahlia. Dictionaries and encyclopedias in Euskera call this plant “dalia”; I think we should call it “dahlia”.
The Spanish invaders who met Dahlia... [+]
I have been a little quieter on the day when the night has become longer than the clear day and I am glad that we are six months like this. I cannot deny that summer has been beautiful, but it smells better to fall. Plants are made “tizas” with the arrival of autumn. The... [+]
Plants are known to smell, more and more. We had known for a long time that plant martingale was to protect itself from herbivorous animals: the plant that has been bitten releases the odor to warn neighboring plants, that they will knead the leaves and will not be of taste to... [+]
Lately, I asked Joxe Anton Arze, one of the most beautiful Basque landscape architects, about the names of the plants that had white flowers. It's already in its Mortecine light.
Grapefruit (Narcissus poeticus), Star perico (Stelaria holostea), White hawthorn (Crataegus... [+]
His relative is the Lo-Belar (Papaver somniferum), but compared to him is the Michoneta (Papaver Rhoeas). The poppy is well known; it is also known as “urdemutur” and “urdamutur”. When spring arrives, the earth will blur every year. It also revives the blush of my shame,... [+]