at the book: The Mother. The Spiritual Significance of Flowers.- 1-st Ed. / Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Pondicherry (India).- Singapore: Ho Printing, 2000.- ISBN 81-7058-609-7
Classification
► Division Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
► Class Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
► Subclass Rosidae
► Order Linales
► Family Linaceae - Flax family
► Genus Linum L. - Flax
Synonyms
(=) Linum grandiflorum var. rubrum hort.
(=) Linum rubrum hort.
Common names
Flowering flax (English)
Red flax (English)
Scarlet flax (English)
Lin (French)
Lin à grandes fleurs (French)
Leinblume (German)
Lino d'Africa (Italian)
Lino de flor (Spanish)
Kattân zuhûr (Arabic)
Keten çiç (Turkish)
Da hua ya ma (Chinese)
Description
Small to medium-sized dainty cup-shaped bright crimson flower with delicately fringed petals and a tufted centre; the petals are two to three times as long as the pointed ovate sepals which have a conspicuous mid-vein; borne in erect terminal racemes. A prolific graceful annual with narrow linear needlelike leaves.
Good temper
He does not become angry when things seem to go against him or decisions are not in his favour.
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 12. - On Education
To be able to be my instrument, you must be regular, energetic, courageous, enduring and always good-tempered.
The Mother
The Mother. Collected Works of the Mother.- Volume 16. - More answers from the Mother
