Pulsatilla Koreana

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Hi this is EJ! This is my first thread. Took this a while ago in Spring.

This is Hal Mi Flower(Grandma Flower); in proper terms, Pulsatilla Koreana.

It is a native perennial plant growing in Korea and used as a traditional Korean herbal medicine.

There is a tale: A long tome ago, according to a fairy tale, there was a widow who had two daughters. The older daughter married a rich man but the younger daughter married a man who wasn’t as luxurious. Time passed and the widow was now very old and she decided to visit her two daughters. However the older one refused to let her stay and she was forced out of the house. So the widow turned to her younger daughter. But she lived very far away over many mountains. The widow fainted while going over the mountain from exhaustion. Some hours later, the younger daughter found her mother but it was already too late and she ended up dying. The younger daughter was extremely sad and buried her near the house. The next spring, a flower bloomed over her grave. The flower was bent like her mother’s back. So the daughter believed her mother had come back as the "grandmother flower".