2. Commemoration: Italians will throw rosemary from Xiaozhi into the grave of the deceased at the funeral ceremony, which represents their respect and nostalgia for the deceased. In Victorian England, the flower language of rosemary has commemorative significance, symbolizing long-term love, loyal friendship and eternal nostalgia.
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morphological character
Shrubs, up to 2 meters high. The stems and old branches are cylindrical, with dark gray cortex, irregular longitudinal cracks and massive peeling, and the young branches are quadrangular and densely covered with white star-shaped fine villi. Leaves are usually clustered on branches, with very short stalks or sessile. The leaves are linear, with a length of1-2.5cm and a width of1-2mm. The top is blunt and round, the base gradually narrows, the whole edge curls backwards, like leather, with a slightly shiny top and nearly hairless bottom, which is densely covered with white star-shaped fluff.
Flowers sessile, opposite, a few gathered at the top of short branches to form racemes; Bracts small, stipitate. Calyx ovoid-bell-shaped, about 4 mm long, densely covered with white stellate villi and glands outside, hairless inside, with 1 1 pulse, 2-lipped, upper lip nearly round, entire or with short 3 teeth, lower lip with 2 teeth and rounded triangular teeth.
Corolla blue-purple, less than 1 cm, sparsely pubescent outside, hairless inside, slightly protruding crown tube, 2-lipped crown brim, straight upper lip, 2-lobed, oval, wide lower lip, 3-lobed middle lobe, concave, downward inclined, toothed edge, base constricted into a stalk, and side lobes oblong.
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