Hello! Today, I'm going to introduce a new kind of flower. Do you know the flower called Lobelia? The dictionary definition of lobelia is a small flower that blooms in blue, red, and white. As its name suggests, it is a purplish blue flower. It's a flower that you might have seen somewhere in Korea, right? Let's find out about Lobelia, which is somewhat familiar.

What is the flower language of Lobelia? Disbelief, sophistication, resentment, malice, the beginning of crisis, they say. It's a beautiful flower, but it's a shame that it has such bad flower language.

It is said that this is because in Victorian times, there was a custom for ladies in high society to send a wreath decorated with this flower to those they secretly despised. The culture of the aristocracy in those days is quite interesting. It's new to send flowers to people you ignore.

Because of its bad flower language, it seems that this name is often inserted into the names of characters with bad personalities in cultural creations. It is said that the name of Bilbo's bad-tempered relative in the movie , which most of us know, is Lobelia Sackville-Baggins. It is also a name that often appears as a villain in romance novels.

This flower is also said to be the birth flower of October 30th. Why don't all those born on October 30th remember the flower Lobelia?

Lobelia is an annual herb belonging to the genus Lobelia in the Campanulaceae family. Its origin is South Africa, where it is said to be a perennial. The scientific name is Lobelia erinus. The color of the flower comes in white, blue, purple, and pink. It is 15~20cm tall, the leaves are alternate and sessile, and are oblate or spatulate. The edges have slight serrations.

It is distributed all over the world, but it is mainly found between tropical and temperate regions, with some species found in cooler temperate regions. If sown in autumn, it blooms in April, and if sown in March, it blooms in June-July.

This plant contains the alkaloid lobeline, which has an excitatory effect on the respiratory center and is used as a medicine for whooping cough, asthma, and chronic bronchitis. However, lobeline is an alkaloid, so it is toxic.

In addition, Lobelia inflata is also called Lobelia. Lobelia inflata is also called Indian tobacco and is native to North America and is 1m tall. The leaves are ovate and have serrations on the edges. Flowers that look like leaves bloom in a spike inflorescence. This is similar to Lobelia.

The fruit is oval-shaped, and once the American Indians used the plant as medicine when the fruit was fully grown. However, it is now known as a poisonous plant. It contains 0.4% alkaloid and is a useful plant used as a raw material for lobeline hydrochloride.

Lobelia is sometimes made into perfume because of its pleasant fragrance. You've learned about Lobelia so far. How was it? Don't you feel a little closer to Lobelia? I hope you can think about Lobelia when you walk down the road. That's it for this article. Thank you!