Tuesday 18 April 2017

Bleeding heart

What was once Dicentra spectabilis is now, for botanical reasons, re-named as Lamprocapnos spectabilis. I'll continue to call it by its common English name that derives from its appearance - bleeding heart. Interestingly the former Latin name translates as double spur spectacular (or "showy"). When it was discovered not to belong in the Dicentra genus its name was changed. What the Greek (?) Lamprocapnos means I don't know and haven't discovered.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Olympus OMD E-M10