Flowers have strange names 6th

Flowers have strange names...

Not like Peter, Adam and Shane’s.

They are called antirrhinum, pansy and phlox;

Some are even called hollyhocks.

They have latin names too

And I don’t mean Caesar and Augustus  or Maximillian II

They are called grandifloras and multifloras,

Solanums, galanthus and cornus.

Names hard to pronounce and quite enormous.

Some plants are named after botanists

Who travelled the world in search of them.

Fuchs got his fuschias; Dahl found the dahlia

Douglas got his fir and Azy the azalea. (Not)

I wish there was a flower called Dave.

With multicoloured petals; now that would be brave.

He’d flower in the Winter; the roots would be an edible treat;

Bear purple fruit in the Spring that are really ever so sweet.

In Summer, he’d rest and let others take over (it’s only polite)

In the Autumn, he’d flower again, the scent would send you as high as a kite.

Oops!!   And Oh!

(He’d have to be labelled ‘not suitable for children’ though)