Rose of Sharons

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1. jane
   

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   Rose of Sharon is a common name that applies to several different species of flowering plants that are highly valued throughout the world. The name's colloquial application has been used as an example of the lack of precision of common names, which potentially causes confusion. Rose of Sharon has also become a frequently used catch phrase in lyrics and verse.
   
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2. amomipais82
   

   Hi There,
   Rose of Sharon is a common name that applies to several different species of flowering plants that are highly valued throughout the world. The name's colloquial application has been used as an example of the lack of precision of common names, which potentially causes confusion.[1] Rose of Sharon has also become a frequently used catch phrase in lyrics and verse.
   Chavatzelet HaSharon (Hebrew ????? ?????) is an onion-like flower bulb. (Hebrew ????? ?a?a??ele?) is a flower of uncertain identity translated as the Rose of Sharon in English language translations of the Bible. Etymologists have inconclusively linked the Biblical ????? to the words ??? be?el, meaning 'bulb', and ??? ?ama?, which is understood as meaning either 'pungent' or 'splendid' (The Analytical Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon). The name Rose of Sharon first appears in English in 1611 in the King James Version of the Bible. According to an annotation of Song of Solomon 2:1 by the translation committee of the New Revised Standard Version, "Rose of Sharon" is a mistranslation of a more general Hebrew word for "crocus".
   
   The most accepted interpretation for the Biblical reference is the Pancratium maritimum, which blooms in the late summer just above the high-tide mark. The Hebrew name for this flower is ????? or ????? ???? (coastal ?a?a??ele?). It is commonly assumed by most people in Israel that, the Sharon plain being on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, the Biblical passage refers to this flower.
   
   Varying scholars have suggested that the biblical "Rose of Sharon" may be one of the following plants:
   
       * A "kind of crocus" ("Sharon", Harper's Bible Dictionary) or a "crocus that grows in the coastal plain of Sharon" (New Oxford Annotated Bible);
       * Tulipa montana, "a bright red tulip-like flower ... today prolific in the hills of Sharon" ("rose", Harper's Bible Dictionary);
       * Tulipa agenensis, the Sharon tulip, a species of tulip suggested by a few botanists; or
       * Lilium candidum, more commonly known as the Madonna lily, a species of lily suggested by some botanists, though likely in reference to the "lily of the valleys" mentioned in the second part of Song of Solomon 2.1.
   
   [edit] Modern usage
   Hypericum calycinum
   Hibiscus syriacus
   
   Rose of Sharon is also commonly applied to two different plants, neither of which is likely to have been the plant from the Bible:
   
       * Hypericum calycinum, an evergreen flowering shrub native to southeast Europe and southwest Asia, and the plant generally referred to in British and Australian English as "Rose of Sharon"; and
       * Hibiscus syriacus, a deciduous flowering shrub native to east Asia, the plant generally referred to in American English as "Rose of Sharon" and the national flower of South Korea. The specific epithet indicates that the plant was thought to originate from Syria. The flower's name in Korean is mugunghwa (Korean Hangul: ???, Hanja: ???).
   
   [edit] Cultural presentation
   
   - In the USA, the Rose of Sharon is the official flower of Phi Beta Chi, a national Lutheran-based Greek social letter sorority.
   
   - In Korea, the Rose of Sharon (mugunghwa or Hibiscus syriacus, "endless flower") is the historical symbol of the present and historic Yi Dynasty Korean royal family, and figures throughout domestic and royal architectural elements, particularly in roof tiles.
   
   - In The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, Rose of Sharon (often called "Rosasharn") is a major character, the eldest daughter of the Joad family and the sister of the protagonist Tom Joad. Throughout much of the novel, she is depicted as fragile because of her pregnancy.
   
   - The Rose of Sharon is also referenced in the Kate Bush recording "The Song of Solomon" from her 1993 album The Red Shoes.
   
   - The Rose of Sharon is referenced in the Killswitch Engage song "Rose of Sharyn" from their 2003 album The End of Heartache.
   
   - There is a song entitled "Rose of Sharon" on Xiu Xiu's 2005 album La Forêt. The lyrics seem to allude to both the Song of Solomon and to Steinbeck's novel.
   
   - The Ragnarok Online background music set includes a track called "Rose of Sharon".
   
   - The village of Rosharon, Texas is named after the "Rose Of Sharon" from the Cherokee Roses that grew near by.
   
   - The Rose of Sharon is referenced in the Bob Dylan song "Caribbean Wind." The song appeared on the compilation album Biograph but was originally recorded during the sessions for Shot of Love.
   
   - Leonard Cohen in his original poem "The Traitor" (on which the song "The Traitor" is based) also refers to the Rose of Sharon.
   
   - Rose of Sharon is a homeless character in Sherman Alexie's short story "What You Pawn I Will Redeem," published April 21, 2003 in The New Yorker.
   
   - Sephardic Hebrew poetry from the 10th-15th century demonstrates prolific use of the ????? (?a?a??ele?) translated into English consistently as "Rose of Sharon"; there are a few renderings as "lily" (see Gate 47 of the Tahkemoni) .[2] The term and trope are found throughout the Sefer Tahkemoni by Yehuda Alharizi (1165-1225) and much of the poetic corpus of the Golden Age of Iberian Jewish belles lettres, which includes the works of such poets as Shmu'el HaNagid (993-1056), Moses Ibn Ezra (c.1055-after 1138), Yehuda Halevi (c.1075-1141), and Abraham Ibn Ezra (c.1093-c.1167) among others.[3]
   
   - Judah Robertson has an album entitled "Rose of Sharon".
   
   - "Rose of Sharon" is a song by Robert Hunter (Greatful Dead) released on his solo album Tiger Rose.
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