Pink Dahlia Triptych #2
by Shirley Mangini
Title
Pink Dahlia Triptych #2
Artist
Shirley Mangini
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Photograph - Photograph
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Beautiful Pink Dahlia Triptych designed by Shirley Mangini
The earliest reference of Dahias are from the Aztecs. It is known that the used them for food and medicine. 1570 King Phillip II of Spain sent Botanista to Mexico to study the native species and dahlias at that time were under the names, Acocotli and Cocoxochitl. The first drawings were made of the dahlias by an associate of the Botanist and were fist published in 1651. The next time dahlias appear in history is 1789 , the director of the Botanical Garden at Mexico City sent plant parts to the Royal Gardens of Madrid in Spain. From these he grew and flowered 3 new plant forms, Dahlia pinnata, D. rosea, and D. coccinea. He named the genus after Andreas Dahl, a Swedish botanist. Seed and plant parts from Cavanilles dahlias were sent throughout Europe beginning in the early 1800s. It was during this time that the scarlet Dahlia coccinea was crossed with a mauve-flowered species, possibly D. pinnata, which ultimately resulted in the first modern dahlia hybrid. The new hybrid was easy to grow and hybridize so they quickly became very popular in European and American gardens. Through the 1800s and 1900s thousands of new forms were developed.
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August 14th, 2014
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