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Red cabbage in panorama between Finningen and Mörslingen, Germany. Red cabbage. The red cabbage (purple-leaved varieties of Brassica oleracea Capitata Group) is a kind of cabbage, also known as Blaukraut after preparation. Its leaves are coloured dark red/purple. However, the plant changes its colour according to the pH value of the soil due ...
Maracujá. The Portuguese maracujá and Spanish maracuyá are both derived from the Tupi mara kuya "fruit that serves itself" or "food in a cuia".. Passion fruit. The term 'passion fruit' in English comes from the passion flower, as an English translation of the Latin genus name, Passiflora, and may be spelled "passion fruit", "passionfruit", or "passion-fruit".
Cherokee Purple is the name of an old variety of tomato that develops a fruit with a deep, dusky-rose color while maintaining a somewhat greenish hue near the stem when mature for eating. The deep crimson interior and clear skin combination give it its distinctive color. It was one of the first of the darker color group of tomatoes sometimes ...
Fuchsia (color) Fuchsia ( / ˈfjuːʃə /, FEW-shə) is a vivid pinkish-purplish- red color, [1] named after the color of the flower of the fuchsia plant, which was named by a French botanist, Charles Plumier, after the 16th-century German botanist Leonhart Fuchs . The color fuchsia was introduced as the color of a new aniline dye called ...
The showy, salver to cup-shaped, single or clustered actinomorphic flowers taper off into a narrow tube; the flowers emerge from the ground, and can be white, yellow, lilac to dark purple, or variegated in cultivars. The flower tube is long, cylindrical and slender, expanding apically. The floral tube is long and narrow with 6 lobes in 2 whorls.
Mauve. Mauve ( / ˈmoʊv / ⓘ, mohv; [2] / ˈmɔːv / ⓘ, mawv) is a pale purple color [3] [4] named after the mallow flower (French: mauve ). The first use of the word mauve as a color was in 1796–98 according to the Oxford English Dictionary, but its use seems to have been rare before 1859. Another name for the color is mallow, [5] with ...
Grape drinks (also known as grape soda, grape pop, or purple drink in certain regions of the U.S.) are sweetened drinks with a grape flavor and a deep purple color. They may be carbonated (e.g., Fanta) or not (e.g., Kool-Aid ). Grapeade first appeared as a variety of carbonated drink provided in soda fountains in American drugstores in the late ...
Red onion. Red onions (also known as purple or blue onions in some mainland European countries) are cultivars of the onion ( Allium cepa ), and have purplish-red skin and white flesh tinged with red. They are most commonly used in cooking, but the skin has also been used as a dye. [1]