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Botanical Name: Anemone coronaria, A. hupehensis var. japonica.
Common Names: Japanese anemone, Poppy anemone, Windflower
Place Of Origin: China and the eastern regions of the Mediterranean.
The name ‘Anemone’ comes from the Greek word for wind. It is said that the goddess Flora was jealous of her husband’s attentions towards the nymph Anemone and so transformed her into the wind flower and left her at the mercy of the North Wind.
Despite being known as Japanese anemones, three main species, including that best known as the windflower - A. hupehensis, actually come from China. These were erroneously called Japanese anemones after one particular form was first recorded near Nagasaki in 1695. By the time the first plants reached the west in 1844, they were already known as A. japonica. Most modern varieties are descended from A. x hybrida.
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