☙ Bladder-senna

Colutea arborescens L. (1753).WFO

Period English: bladder senna (bladder-senna); senna tree ▲︎;TTA

Period French: baguenaudier m. BD HP:FE JDS

Period German: Blaſenbaum m. ('bladder-tree'). JDS

Sentiments:

ParesseLaziness ◼︎ (1811); BD

Frivolous amusement(s) ▲︎◆︎ (1825-1845); HP:FE LH S&K

Amusement ▲︎ (1836); TTA

Amusement frivoleFrivolous amusement ◼︎ (1841); JDS

Frivolity ◆︎ (1850). HGA:OT

Region:

Native: Continental Europe.WFO

Introduced: Caucasus; China; Kazakhstan; Uzbekistan; Eastern Europe; Primorye; South Australia; Great Britain; Northeastern U.S.A.; Colorado; New Mexico; California; Argentina Northeast.WFO

Seasonality: Deciduous shrub, flowers summer, fruits autumn.

Period Colours: TBC.

Heraldry: TBC.

Religious: TBC.

Cited Verse:

TBC.

🜱 On sentiments: The sentiments applied to the bladder-senna are simple and universal: the fruits, or pods, of this tree are papery 'bladders' filled with air, and they are observed to be made the toys of idle play, especially by children.



Abécédaire de Flore

B. Delachénaye, 1811 ◼︎


EMBLÉMES TIRÉS DU RÈGNE VÉGÉTAL.


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Baguenaudier signifie paresse.


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