: For the of Montreal album, see Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse. : For the Sakura Wars character, see List of Sakura Wars characters. Coquelicot ( ) is a shade of red. The term was originally a French vernacular name for the wild corn poppy, Papaver rhoeas, which is distinguished by its bright red color, and orange tint. It eventually passed into English usage as the name of a color based upon that of the flower. The first recorded use of this usage was in the year 1795. Claude Monet painted Les Coquelicots or Poppies Blooming in 1873. See also * Lis...

Gamboge ( , , or ) is a partially transparent deep saffron to mustard yellow pigment. It is used to dye Buddhist monks' robes because the color is a deep tone of saffron, the traditional color used for the robes of Theravada Buddhist monks. Production Gamboge is most often extracted by tapping resin (sometimes incorrectly referred to as sap) from various species of evergreen trees of the family Clusiaceae (also known as Guttiferae). The tree most commonly used is the gamboge tree (genus Garcinia), including G. hanburyi (Cambodia and Thailand), G. morella (India and Sri Lanka), and G. e...

Glaucous (from the Latin glaucus, meaning "bluish-grey or green", from the Greek glaukós) is used to describe the pale grey or bluish-green appearance of the surfaces of some plants, as well as in the names of birds, such as the Glaucous Gull (Larus hyperboreus), Glaucous-winged Gull (Larus glaucescens), Glaucous Macaw (Anodorhynchus glaucus), and Glaucous Tanager (Thraupis glaucocolpa). The term glaucous is also used botanically as an adjective to mean "covered with a greyish, bluish, or whitish waxy coating or bloom that is easily rubbed off" (e.g. glaucous leaves). The first recorded...

Heliotrope is a pink-purple tint that is a representation of the color of the heliotrope flower. The first recorded use of Heliotrope as a color name in English was in 1882. Variations of heliotrope Heliotrope gray The color heliotrope gray is displayed at right. The first recorded use of heliotrope gray as a color name in English was in 1912. The source of this color is: [http://tx4.us/nbs/nbs-h.htm ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955)--Color Sample of Heliotrope Gray (color sample #227)] Old heliotrope At right is displayed the color old heliotrope. Another name for ...

Icterine is a colour, described as yellowish, jaundice-yellow or marked with yellow. It is derived from Ancient Greek ikteros (jaundice), via the Latin ictericus. It is used as an adjective in the names of birds with yellowish plumage to describe their appearance, including the Icterine Warbler and Icterine Greenbul. See also * Icterid * List of colours References