/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>19304995
>a site that comprehensively lists hanakotoba
Oh, that isn't really necessary, these sites crop up by the dozen when you search for plant name + 花言葉. I have no idea what most plants are called in Japanese either, so I just go on their wiki pages and switch languages.

Hawthorn has "hope" and "caution", for example (and was apparently used as a discreet request for a kiss, which is pretty cute), while calibrachoa gets things like "calm heart" and "you put me at ease". I can't find much for poison oak, though its Japanese cousins (wax tree and lacquer tree) are both represented in FKG. Sumac, another close relative, has "splendor" and "splendid misery", while Venetian sumac has "intellectual excellence" (wonder if that inspired Lacquer Tree's flower meaning).

>>19305000
>Maybe one of them could be the next girl with a pet pest.
A girl with a pet pest has been my hope for very long, though I had been expecting one of these highly-specific pollination mutualisms like figs and fig wasps, yuccas and yucca moths, senita cactus and senita moths, cacao and cacao midges (that ship has unfortunately sailed, though the Cacao we have is super cute too), or any of the many myrmecophytes (there's even one, Duroia, with super-aggressive ants that kill any other plant in their tree's vicinity, creating single-species groves called "devil's gardens").

Still, we already have Catchfly as a pest-obsessed knight, and she's a treasure. Also, since we're talking about out-there plants, maybe Lacandonia would make a good reverse trap? This flower has the distinction of having its male and female reproductive structures in each other's places, so that you have a few stamens surrounded by dozens of carpels (it's also a self-pollinating underground flower, so the next logical step is eliminating the stamens and creating a private yuri harem).

In any case, we've got maybe 2-3 years before FKG closes, barring some sudden catastrophe (a la Devil Maker: Tokyo). That's plenty of time to see a lot of flowers reworked as cute girls.

>>19304995
>a site that comprehensively lists hanakotoba
Oh, that isn't really necessary, these sites crop up by the dozen when you search for plant name + 花言葉. I have no idea what most plants are called in Japanese either, so I just go on their wiki pages and switch languages.

Hawthorn has "hope" and "caution", for example (and was apparently used as a discreet request for a kiss, which is pretty cute), while calibrachoa gets things like "calm heart" and "you put me at ease". I can't find much for poison oak, though its Japanese cousins (wax tree and lacquer tree) are both represented in FKG. Sumac, another close relative, has "splendor" and "splendid misery", while Venetian sumac has "intellectual excellence" (wonder if that inspired Lacquer Tree's flower meaning).

>>19305000
>Maybe one of them could be the next girl with a pet pest.
A girl with a pet pest has been my hope for very long, though I had been expecting one of these highly-specific pollination mutualisms like figs and fig wasps, yuccas and yucca moths, senita cactus and senita moths, cacao and cacao midges (that ship has unfortunately sailed, though the Cacao we have is super cute too), or any of the many myrmecophytes (there's even one, Duroia, with super-aggressive ants that kill any other plant in their tree's vicinity, creating single-species groves called "devil's gardens").

Still, we already have Catchfly as a pest-obsessed knight, and she's a treasure. Also, since we're talking about out-there plants, maybe Lacandonia would make a good reverse trap? This flower has the distinction of having its male and female reproductive structures in each other's places, so that you have a few stamens surrounded by dozens of carpels (it's also a self-pollinating underground flower that never opens, so the next logical step is eliminating the stamens and creating a private yuri harem).

In any case, we've got maybe 2-3 years before FKG closes, barring some sudden catastrophe (a la Devil Maker: Tokyo). That's plenty of time to see a lot of flowers reworked as cute girls.