

Each year in Israel there is a month-long festival to celebrate the blooming of the red anemones. In 2013 ''Anemone coronaria'' was elected as the national flower of the State of Israel, in a poll arranged by the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel and Ynet. The Stocky type of cluster anemone is to be found in the north-western Mediterranean and presents a deep orange colour, and a shorter, thicker trunk and tentacles. "Kalanit" comes from the Hebrew word "kala כלה" which means "bride", "metzuya" means "common." The kalanit earned its name because of its beauty and majesty, evoking a bride on her wedding day. In Hebrew, the anemone is ''kalanit metzuya''. According to myth, the flower thrived on An-Nu'man's grave, paralleling the death and rebirth of Adonis. An-Nu'man is known to have protected the flowers during his reign. Another possible source of the name is An-Nu'man III Bin Al-Munthir, the last Lakhmid king of Al-Hirah and a Christian Arab. Tammuz's Phoenician epithet "Nea'man" is believed to be both the source of "an-Nu'man" in Arabic which came through Syriac, and of "anemone" which came through Greek. The deity is transformed into a flower, stained by the blood of Adonis. Tammuz is generally considered to have been drawn into the Greek pantheon as Adonis, who died of his wounds while hunting wild boar. One possible source of the name traces back to the Sumerian god of food and vegetation, Tammuz, whose Phoenician epithet was "Nea'man". The Arabic name is ''shaqa'iq An-Nu'man'' translated literally as the wounds, or "pieces", of Nu'man. ''Anemone coronaria'' means crown anemone, referring to the central crown of the flower, evoking regal associations. Suborden Enthemonae: son las anémonas con la morfología típica mesenterial, de cuerpo blando y con tentáculos que las hacen similares a flores.La mayoría de las anémonas marinas pertenece a este grupo. The plants form hard black tubers as storage organs.Īside from its flowers resembling poppies, the red single wild form flowers resemble the flowers of the red single wild form of ''Ranunculus asiaticus''. Existen más de 1.000 especies de anémonas de mar, pero pueden agruparse en dos grandes tipos que resultan de una categoría taxonómica más específica. This central mound consists of tightly packed pistils in the centre, with a crown-like ring of stamens surrounding this, which gives the species its name.

The pollen is dry, has an unsculpted exine, is less than 40 nm in diameter, and is usually deposited within 1.5 m of its source. The flowers which bloom from April to June are borne singly on a tall stem with a whorl of small leaves just below the flower the flower is 3–8 cm diameter, with 5–8 red showy petal-like tepals and a black centre. ''Anemone coronaria'' is a herbaceous perennial tuberous plant growing to 20–40 cm tall, rarely to 60 cm, spreading to 15–23 cm, with a basal rosette of a few leaves, the leaves with three leaflets, each leaflet deeply lobed.
