{"id":18046,"date":"2013-01-23T17:20:21","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T16:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=18046"},"modified":"2013-02-01T18:13:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T17:13:38","slug":"top-10-funniest-french-names-of-flowers-part-deux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/top-10-funniest-french-names-of-flowers-part-deux\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Funniest French Names of Flowers (Part DEUX)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2203\/2478814663_c46e793652_z.jpg?zz=1\" alt=\"photo\" width=\"384\" height=\"269\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>We pick up today from where we left last time: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">The Top 10 <em>Funniest<\/em> French Names of Flowers<\/span>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the link to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/top-10-funniest-french-names-of-flowers\/\">Part 1<\/a>, if you missed it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">* * *<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong><em>NUM<strong><em>\u00c9<\/em><\/strong>RO CINQ<\/em>\u00a0(NUMBER FIVE):\u00a0<em>Lis queue de r\u00e9nard<\/em>: Eremurus<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Eremurus is called in French\u00a0<strong><em>Lis queue de\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/foxy-and-frenchy\/\">renard<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, literally &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Lily-Tail-of-a-Fox<\/strong><\/span>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shamans and White Magic practitioners (whom we know for a fact make up the best part of our Blog&#8217;s new reinvigorated\u00a0readership) may be easily tempted to confuse this flower with another one of a similar name:\u00a0<strong><em>l&#8217;Amarante queue de renard<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 119px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2630\/3874684634_39acaaf3f9_z.jpg\" alt=\"photo\" width=\"109\" height=\"161\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">For once, a flower that has less of a &quot;dramatic&quot; name in French than its English counterpart. Compare &quot;Amarante queue de renard&quot; with &quot;Love-Lies-Bleeding&quot;! <\/p><\/div>\n<p>This\u00a0<em><strong>amarante<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is in fact widely famous as a\u00a0<strong><em>plante magique<\/em><\/strong>, and looks awfully a lot like a fox&#8217;s tail.<\/p>\n<p>Medieval rumors (always on target, when it comes to this kind of stuff) had it that anyone who was lucky enough to get a hold of such a plant would instantly turn (wait for it&#8230;) invisible!<\/p>\n<p>(Or naked. But then who cares.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">* * *<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong><em>NUM<strong><em>\u00c9<\/em><\/strong>RO QUATRE<\/em>\u00a0(NUMBER FOUR):\u00a0<em>Herbe \u00e0 chat<\/em>: Catmint<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For some mysterious reason, this enigmatic flower is intrinsically, if not biologically, related to\u00a0<strong><em>les chats\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(cats): In English, it&#8217;s Catmint (not just for those of our feline friends with bad breath.)<\/p>\n<p>And\u00a0<strong><em>en fran\u00e7ais<\/em><\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s\u00a0<strong><em>Herbe<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<strong><em>\u00e0 chat<\/em><\/strong>, namely &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Cat Grass<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;!<\/p>\n<p>I know what you&#8217;re thinking: Is it a flower exclusively marketed to\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/mini-survival-guide-for-the-vegetariens-in-france\/\">vegetarian<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>cats?<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/french-speaking-samurai-fighting-pizza-loving-cats\/\">Smoking cats<\/a><\/strong>, maybe?<\/p>\n<p>We may never know.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vZmJesEN3XM\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vZmJesEN3XM<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Nearly 75% of cats become &#8220;high&#8221; (or something like that) under the influence of the <em>Herbe\u00a0<em>\u00e0 chat <\/em><\/em>(Catmint)<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Tell your cat to just say <em>non<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">* * *<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong><em>NUM<strong><em>\u00c9<\/em><\/strong>RO TROIS<\/em>\u00a0(NUMBER THREE):\u00a0<em>Iris Tigr\u00e9<\/em>: Belamcanda<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Still in the &#8220;feline&#8221; category, but a tad bit more ferocious, is the French name of Belamcanda.<\/p>\n<p>Well, let me go ahead and warn you: This is one flower you probably don&#8217;t wanna mess with.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called\u00a0<em><strong>Iris Tigr\u00e9<\/strong><\/em>, or &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Tigered-Iris<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;!<\/p>\n<p>(Here, kitty, kitty?)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">* * *<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"judaspenning - honesty - Lunaria annua\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K77je7II6QI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong><em>NUM<strong><em>\u00c9<\/em><\/strong>RO DEUX<\/em>\u00a0(NUMBER TWO):\u00a0<em>Monnaie du Pape<\/em>: Honesty<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At this stage comes\u00a0<strong>Miss Honesty<\/strong>\u00a0(who&#8217;s still the &#8220;<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Best<\/span> Policy<\/strong>&#8220;, notwithstanding its second rank in\u00a0our\u00a0<strong>TOP 10<\/strong>.)<\/p>\n<p>A pretty cute name for a flower, indeed.<\/p>\n<p>In French, however, it has the rather\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/surrealisme-of-andre-breton-la-chute-libre-dans-le-subconscient-the-free-fall-into-the-subconscious\/\">surreal<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0name of &#8220;<strong><em>monnaie du Pape<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;, meaning &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>the small change (of money) of the Pope<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;!<\/p>\n<p>Well, it may be a bit of a\u00a0<strong><em>terme inappropri\u00e9\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(misnomer), as the amount of money carried in the Pope&#8217;s pocket is most likely not that &#8220;small&#8221; (something to do with his Holiness having no wife and all.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">* * *<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong><em>LE NUM<strong><em>\u00c9<\/em><\/strong>RO UN<\/em>\u00a0(&#8220;ZE&#8221; NUMBER ONE, SECOND TO NONE):\u00a0<em>Canne \u00e0 p\u00e8che des anges<\/em>: Dierama<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally, you already were aware of the fact that angels were fully armed with all sorts of toys and tools.<\/p>\n<p>Remember Cupid&#8217;s deadly arsenal of WMDs (bows, arrows, and all)?<\/p>\n<p>What you probably didn&#8217;t suspect, however, is that these celestial beings occasionally enjoy going fishing (when? On Sundays, obviously.)<\/p>\n<p>For that, they using a 100% made-in-heaven\u00a0<em><strong>canne<\/strong>\u00a0<strong><em>\u00e0 p\u00eache\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/em>(fishing rod.)<\/p>\n<p>Hence the name of Dierama in French: &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><em><strong>Canne<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<strong><em>\u00e0 p\u00eache des anges<\/em><\/strong><\/span>&#8221; (or &#8220;Fishing Rod of Angels.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 279px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1182\/805967805_aabc00562d_z.jpg\" alt=\"photo\" width=\"269\" height=\"179\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canne \u00e0 p\u00eache des anges (literally &quot;Fishing Rod of Angels.&quot; In English, it is known as Dierama, and is sometimes nicknamed &quot;Fairy Wand&quot;)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>__________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Pictures shared by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btempel\/3874684634\/\">Barbara Delmazzo-Tempel<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/marqueton\/805967805\/\">vincen-t<\/a>\u00a0via Flickr<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"245\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/01\/2478814663_c46e793652_z-350x245.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/01\/2478814663_c46e793652_z-350x245.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/01\/2478814663_c46e793652_z.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>We pick up today from where we left last time: The Top 10 Funniest French Names of Flowers! 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