Talk:Hyacinth

message: This article needs to be referenced in due course. Capitalistroadster 05:36, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: "If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft,
And from thy slender store store two loaves alone to thee are left,
Sell one, and with the dole,
Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul"
This was Saadi.
How many times a year does it spring out?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.120.113.21 (talk) 13:10, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Hycenth for the Soul

message: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyacinthus_orientalis  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.197.75.191 (talk) 19:41, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The article says, "Some authorities place H. litwonowii and H. transcaspicus in the related genus Hyacinthella, which would make Hyacinthus a monotypic genus." If it were a question of most authorities, I'd agree that a merge would be appropriate. But unless there's widespread belief among botanists that the other two are Hyacinthella, H. orientalis probably does deserve its own separate article. Rivertorch (talk) 04:17, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  suggest merging with other hyacvinth page 

message: The flower 'Hyakinthos' of Nicander and Lucian and other ancient writters is probably the plant Gladiolus segetum (Gennadios - Plant Dictionary, 1914). G. segetum is considered until nowadays as a funereal plant as hyakinth was considered too during the ancient times  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vardos (talk • contribs) 00:54, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: There are various theories as to the identity of the "hyacinth" of the ancients. Alice Lindsell (ref in article) identified Homer's and Sappho's plant and Theophrastus' wild (ἀγρία) hyacinth as Scilla bifolia, whereas she considered Theophrastus's cultivated (σπαρτή) hyacinth to be the European wild larkspur, Consolida ajacis. Theocritus (Idyll x 28) uses the phrase γραπτὰ ὑάκινθος, which does fit the larkspur; see the markings on the upper petals at :File:Consolida ajacis detalle flor.jpg. With some imagination these markings might resemble the cry ΑΙ. However, John Raven and others have considered γραπτὰ ὑάκινθος to be some species of orchid, e.g. Orchis quadripunctata. It seems highly likely that a number of different plants were included under this name. Peter coxhead (talk) 17:03, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

text: Perhaps it is multiple plants or just one, but any which way, the hyacinth mentioned in the legends is not this flower, and therefore the legends do not belong on this page. The fact that this flower was named after the flower mentioned in Homer is all that is relevant. 129.215.5.255 (talk) 18:57, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I tend to agree. Peter coxhead (talk) 18:05, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

text: Me. too.  However, since no one else seems interested in removing it, I did just now.  Poor Hyacinth has his own page.  Readers interested in him can go read about him there.  Rissa, Guild of Copy Editors  (talk) 01:03, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

text: Added an image of a pink hyacinth to help show the different color ranges Pink.C2021 (talk) 14:25, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Real Hyacinth 

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message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: moved. Consensus among participants that the plant is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for the title. (non-admin closure)  ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 15:10, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Note: :Hyacinth →  added per this nomination. P.I. Ellsworth , ed. put'er there 13:44, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 20 March 2023