The vernacular name daisy, widely applied to members of this family, is derived from its Old English meaning, dægesege, from dæges eage meaning " day's eye ," and this was because the petals ( of Bellis perennis ) open at dawn and close at dusk.

Members of Kalanchoe genus are characterized by opening their flowers by growing new cells on the inner surface of the petals to force them outwards, and on the outside of the petals to close them.

At night or when it is getting colder, the petals close.

On close examination, it is seen that the floret petals are red in their upper part and the filaments are pink to lavender.

The campus is close to Yushima Tenjin, from which the plum blossom symbol of university ( five petals ) was derived.

" Electromechanical systems hidden within the flowers ' shells " allow petals to open and close and tentacles to reach or retreat in response to human movement.

The three petals ( or inner tepals ), also showy, are located alternately between the sepals, two at the side and one usually at the bottom of the flower.

A hammer strikes a wheel with petals, the " daisy wheel ", each petal containing a letter form at its tip.

Aquilegia ( Columbine ) is a genus of about 60-70 species of perennial plants that are found in meadows, woodlands, and at higher altitudes throughout the Northern Hemisphere, known for the spurred petals of their flowers.

The maneuver was a public relations sensation and Stuart was greeted with flower petals thrown in his path at Richmond.

One of his most famous paintings is The Roses of Heliogabalus ( 1888 ) – based on an episode from the life of the debauched Roman Emperor Elagabalus ( Heliogabalus ), the painting depicts the psychopathic Emperor suffocating his guest at an orgy under a cascade of rose petals.

He is said to have smothered guests at a banquet by flooding the room with rose petals: married his male lover-who was then referred as the ' Empress's husband ', and married one of the vestal virgins.

But at the first lecture Adorno's attempt to open up the lecture and invite questions whenever they arose degenerated into a disruption from which he quickly fled: after a student wrote on the blackboard " If Adorno is left in peace, capitalism will never cease ," three women students approached the lectern, bared their breasts and scattered flower petals over his head.

The floral tube, formed from the basal part of the sepals, petals and stamens can become fleshy at maturity and is united with the ovary to form the fruit.

The flowers have five petals ( sometimes more ), a three-carpelled ovary, and a funnel-shaped nectar tube at the back.

It comes in a range of habits and colours including cream, yellow, orange and red, either solid colour or striped and often with a dark blotch at the base of the petals.

The two bottom petals are fused together at the apex ( remaining free at the base ), forming a boat-like structure called the keel.

The flowers are produced in a panicle or corymb up to 26 cm long, each flower small, pale green at first then turning reddish, with five slender, acute petals 7 to 15 mm long.

Stamens twice as many or equal to the number of petals, inserted at the base of the

The jacket was cut at the hollow to intentionally weaken it, and these cuts allowed the jacket to open into six petals upon impact.

Two years later, at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, seven young athletes-Callum Airlie, Jordan Duckitt, Desiree Henry, Katie Kirk, Cameron MacRitchie, Aidan Reynolds and Adelle Tracey-were given the honor to light the flame on one of 204 copper petals before converging to form the cauldron for the Games.

A Pansy exhibiting the flower's morphology: two large petals overlapping at the top, two side petals, a lower petal with slight indentation, and beards at the center

He pursued Heracles at the River Anthemus but fell victim to an arrow that had been dipped in the venomous blood of the Lernaean Hydra, shot so forcefully by Heracles that it pierced Geryon's forehead, " and Geryon bent his neck over to one side, like a poppy that spoils its delicate shapes, shedding its petals all at once ".

The delicate jasmine flower opens only at night and may be plucked in the morning when the tiny petals are tightly closed, then stored in a cool place until night.

Sharbat is a sweet cold beverage prepared from fruits or flower petals.

In Cambodia, a cold beverage can be prepared by first steeping the petals in hot water until the colors are leached from the petals, then adding lime juice ( which turns the beverage from dark brown / red to a bright red ), sweeteners ( sugar / honey ) and finally cold water / ice cubes.

Galen's cold cream was based on beeswax and water, also containing olive oil and rose petals for softness and scent, respectively.

The fruit bodies of several earthstars are hygroscopic: in dry weather the " petals " will dry and curl up around the soft spore sac, protecting it.

When the weather dampens the " petals " moisten and uncurl and some even curl backward lifting the spore sac up.

The flower petals were positioned according to the weather, to shade, keep dry or allow sun to shine on the pavilion.

That action releases a mechanism which causes the petals to suddenly spring open, giving access to the nectar and pollen.

On being made Grand Duke of Tuscany Cosimo I de ' Medici was granted the use of an open radial crown with a representation of the red Florentine fleurs-de-lis with its stamens posed between the petals in place of the ray in the front, completely covered with precious stones, by Pope Pius V, who specified that the circlet of this crown be engraved with an inscription that the crown had been granted him to wear by the Pope.

** rose form ( overlapping petals showing stamens in a concave centre when open )

The petals begin to open between six and eight in the evening, as the temperature lowers.

The landing capsule had four triangular petals which would open after landing, righting the spacecraft and exposing the instrumentation.

The landing capsule had four triangular petals which would open after landing, righting the spacecraft and exposing the instrumentation.

Many species also produce self-pollinated cleistogamous flowers in summer and autumn that do not open and lack petals.

The flowers open before the leaves, the female flowers being somewhat longer than the male flowers ; they are dark purple, and without petals, and are wind-pollinated.

In many species, the flowers are borne separately in open ( but often dense ) clusters, while in various other species ( such as the flowering dogwood ), the flowers themselves are tightly clustered, lacking showy petals, but surrounded by four to six large, typically white petal-like bracts.

The flowers are produced in dense or open whorls on an erect spike, each flower 1 – 2 cm long, with a typical peaflower shape with an upper ' standard ' or ' banner ', two lateral ' wings ' and two lower petals fused as a ' keel '.

The four petals would open and the lander would signal the orbiter when it passed over the landing site.

The flower buds appear in early spring and open in early summer in erect 7 – 15cm racemes of 30 – 40 flowers, each flower 1cm across, with five creamy-white petals and numerous yellowish stamens.

The SLA was composed of four fixed panels bolted to the Instrument Unit on top of the S-IVB stage, which were connected via hinges to four panels which would open from the top similar to flower petals.

The petals are free, usually crumpled in the bud, and sometimes in the open flower ( e. g. Cistus incanus ).

In action, they fold open like the petals on a flower, greatly increasing drag and pulling the entire four-booster assembly away from the missile body.

Jovibarba have pale-greenish-yellow or yellow actinomorphic flowers with about six petals, while Sempervivum have generally pinkish flowers with around twice as many petals, which open more widely than Jovibarba flowers.

The ' petals ' are crystals flattened on the c crystallographic axis, fanning open along characteristic gypsum cleavage planes.

These diaphragms are frequently scored in a cross-shaped pattern to a calibrated depth to ensure that they rupture evenly, contouring the petals so that the full section of the tube remains open during the test time.

From the gardeners point of view Epimedium flowers comprise two main parts, the inner sepals, which are petal-like and four in number ( the four outer sepals are small, insignificant, and rapidly shed as the flowers open ) and the petals, which are held within the sepals.

The flowers are produced in large inflorescences, which may be either dense or open and lax ; each flower is small, 3 – 10 mm diameter, with five white or pink petals.