h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This months' Create theme is 'Plants and Flowers'. (See: A87828529 May Create: Plants and Flowers). Not a theme I know a great deal about, but I'm sure the h2g2 community as a whole has a vast wealth of experience in the topic.

So I'd like to ask What can you think of that's named after a plant or flower?

For example, Steam Railways often are, such as:
Bluebell Line
Lavender Line
Watercress Line

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Rosebud.

cows

What sort of plant is an Ermintrude ?

I thought plants were named after cows - ie cowslip...?

The dodgiest part of Southampton is the Flowers Estate.

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It isn't always obvious which came first, the flower or the object. Ladyslippers, for example, might have been named after actual slippers. Foxgloves after gloves. Queen Anne's lace.

There are proper names that seem to have originated with flower names: Iris, Daisy, Lobelia, Viola, Buttercup, Rose, probably more.

There must, surely, be a whole plethra of beers named after flowers... well, cept for 'Flowers' of course... only I can't think of any right now... If anyone's in the Rose and crown, maybe they could hav ea look at the pumps for us... ,rose>

In Plymouth, Massachusetts there's a venerable boat called the Mayflower.

London Pride

I've been on that one, and I work quite close to where it set sail from in Southampton.

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Icy do you mean
Saxifraga cuneifolia

B***** H***
I didn't realise Icy had both plants and boats covered in one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Pride

Plants, boats, beers and LGBT festivals, the lot.

Orange Blossom The Nakajima Kikka Japans first jet fighter basd on the WWII German ME 262.

Cotton Blossom was the name of a boat in the Kern/Hammerstein musical "Show Boat."

Amaryllis, Texas was named after the amaryllises that bloom there.

Saffron Waldon as another example

My office. Saffron Ground. Same reasoning as Saffron Walden.

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re3al estate developments often take interesting names.

"Sunflower estates" is a common name for developments in Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Maine, and probably many other states and principalities.

Charleston, South Carolina has a tourist destination called "Magnolia Plantation," which dates back more than a century.

Norton, Massachusetts has a dog breeding facility called Rose Manor. Louisiana has a bed and breakfast called Rose Manor. Pittsfield, Massachusetts has a development for elderly/disabled tenants called Rose Manor.

Magnolia itself is, of course named after the Latin for 'big oil'.

When you get up in the morning, you might pour yourself a cup of jasmine tea and get a morning glory muffin on a Pfaltzgraf "Tea Rose" plate [or, alternatively, an "Old Country Roses" plate]. Then you do some yoga, practicing the lotus pose.