Helichrysum bracteatum

Xerochrysum bracteatum

February 284th's birth flower

Location: Aqua
Location: Hamanako Garden Park(Pacific Flora 2004)
Location: Hamanako Garden Park(Pacific Flora 2004)
Location: Kiba Park
Location: Kiba Park
Location: Kiba Park

Flower name
Helichrysum bracteatum
Scientific name
Xerochrysum bracteatum
Aliasヘリクリサム, テイオウカイザイク, Helichrysum, bracted strawflower, 麦藁菊, 帝王貝細工, Golden everlasting
Place of originwestern Australia
Place of floweringGarden
Flowering seasonMay, June, July, August, September
Language of flowersmemory

What is Helichrysum bracteatum

Birth flowers for May 24, Feb 28

💧February 284th's birth flower:Helichrysum bracteatum
A drop of flowers and poetry, one each day. From Kagiken's Flower Guide, we deliver words that bloom softly in your heart.
Aqua (Waterdrop Poetry), Illustration,Editing & Translation: Mizuho @Kagiken

Sakurasou
Helichrysum bracteatum by Aqua
Note: The Japanese text in the illustration has the same meaning as Aqua's water droplet poem.
Aqua is a water spirit.

🖋️Dewdrop Poem for Strawflower (Helichrysum) “Light That Lingers”
by Aqua

Everyone believes
flowers will eventually scatter.

Yet the strawflower
transcends time, blooming forever.

Even when dry, its color doesn't fade;
even when withered, it still continues to bloom.

It does this
to hold the memory of life within it,
and pass it on to the future.

“Beauty does not fade away.”
As if speaking these words,
the helichrysum
quietly, yet surely,
holds onto the light.

💧A drop's whisper
Helichrysum does not resist the flow of time,
yet it is not swept away either.

Its form is a magical drop
that makes the moment “now” eternal.

Helichrysum bracteatum , commonly called as Golden everlasting. Strawflower, or bracted strawflower, scientific name: Helichrysum bracteatum, is a semi-dwarfing annual herb of the family Asteraceae native to western Australia.
From early summer to autumn, the hard and thin stem branches at the top and blooms head flowers.
The head flower consists only of a tubular flower, and what looks like a tongue flower is a total bundle.
There are many color of Involucral bract such as red, yellow, orange, white and purple.
Since the involucral bract contains silicic acid, it has a hard metallic luster and has a flower-like property like dried flowers.
It is an insectivorous flower where bees and flies come to the flower head. Flower language is "memory".
is the same Helichrysum flower.

Common name: Helichrysum bracteatum,
Scientific name: Helichrysum bracteatum,
aka: Golden everlasting, bracted strawflower,
Place of Origin: Australia,
Plant height: 50 to 120 cm,
Leaf form: Lenticular, Leaf order: Alteration, Leaf edge: Full rim,
Flowering stage: May to September, Flower color: Yellow, white, involucral bract’s color: Red and, yellow, orange, white, purple, etc.,
headed flower diameter: 3 to 5 cm, Fruit type: Fruit, application: Garden plant, potted plant, cut flower, bud flower, dried flower.

Helichrysum bracteatum