Tuesday, May 20, 2008Why do Roses have thorns?
The Scientist says:
Most of us called them thorns but to be scientifically correct, they are actually ‘prickles’. They are actually not true thorns, like those hat you fins on a citrus tree, ‘Prickles’ are small stubs of growth from the epidermis (the outer layer of the stem’s tissue) whereas ‘thorns’ are actually part of the stem itself. ‘Thorns’ always appear at nodes of a stem, just as leaves do.
Roses’ prickles are useful in helping them fend off animals that want to graze on them. Predators may have chewed off the tasty flowers but they will definitely stop short once they change upon any prickles. This way, the rose stays alive and can grow again.
Don’t be surprised, but there are roses that are thornless. These include those of Bzephirine Drouhin, Kathleen Harrop, and Reine des Violettes variety
Roman mythology has it that there was a maiden by the name of Rodanthe. She was so beautiful that she had hordes of suitors calling at her door. She was unmoved by their ardent pledges of love. To escape the amorous attention of her suitors, she took refuge in the Temple of Diana. Her suitors followed in relentless pursuit. Their hearts got the better of their heads, and they tore down the doors of the temple, in a bid to get closer to their object of desirer. The Goddess, Diana was furious. She then turned Rodanthe into a rose and her suitors into the thorns surrounding her.
The rose is hence a symbol of love tingled with pain, suffering and death for the Romans.The Christian legend, however, tells of the rose as a lovely bloom in the Garden of Eden that grew its first thorns only after Adam and Eve were cast out of Eden. >.Okay, that’s all! Bye!-. ！
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