Taraxacum officinale

The birth flower for May 3

Location: Copilot
Location: Kiba Park
Location: Mizuho Yanagishita Productions
Location: Minami-Boso (Chiba, Japan)
Location: Minami-Boso (Chiba, Japan)
Location: Kiba Park
Location: Kiba Park

Flower name
Taraxacum officinale
Scientific name
Taraxacum officinale
AliasDandelion, 西洋蒲公英, ダンデリオン, タンデライオン, tampopo
Place of originEurope
Place of floweringFields and footpaths
Flowering seasonJanuary, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

What is Taraxacum officinale

Birth flowers for May 3

The birth flower for May 3 is Dandelion(Taraxacum officinale)
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,　Copilot: Illustration , Editing_WEB: Mizuho @Kagiken.

Dandelion(Taraxacum officinale), Illustration by Copilot
Note: The Japanese text in the illustration has the same meaning as Aqua's water droplet poem.
Aqua is a water spirit.

💧Dandelion's Droplet Poem: “A Droplet Riding the Wind”

by Aqua

I became
a single droplet
beside a yellow light
just above the ground.

The moment the gently swaying fluff
touched the wind’s fingertips,
my body grew light.

“Go on,”
I felt the dandelion say,
and I leapt up into the sky.

The wind knows the way,
and I simply
surrender myself to its flow.

I don’t know where I’m going,
but setting out on a journey
makes such a gentle sound.

Plop—
In the wind,
I melted into a new world.

🌙 When a drop of water lands on a dandelion fluff,
a “gentle flow” is born in the story.

Dandelion fluff = a symbol of departure
Drop of water = a drop from Aqua’s heart
Wind = the current guiding us toward the future

When these three overlap,
the image of a “gentle departure” naturally emerges.

Taraxacum officinale, dandelion Western

Taraxacum officinale, dandelion Western (scientific name: Taraxacum officinale) is native to Europe and is a perennial grass of the family Asteraceae. In the spring, yellow flowers are blooming and it is a wild grass that has been friendly since childhood.
After flowering, a large number of white crown hairs gather and become spherical cotton (fluff).
Each crown has seeds and is blown off by the wind and breed. In the late autumn leaves radially spread and stick to the ground, so-called rosette wintering.
It is naturalized from Europe, and it is blooming all the year round.
On the other hand, Japanese dandelion (Japanese fish) will bloom from March to May. In a cotton pomp, the whole bench (a part of the calyx between the flower stem and the yellow head flower) is warped, but the Japanese dandelion has no warping of the general bark flap.
Leaves and roots are used as edible or medicinal herbs, regardless of the east and west of the Western world.

dandelion

Name: Taraxacum officinale ,
aka: Dandelion,
flower season: anniversary,
plant height: 5 to 40 cm,
flower diameter: 3 to 6 cm, flower color: yellow · orange.

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