Color Names

Hollyhock Bloom

Soft as the inside of a hollyhock flower, past its showy peak.

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Hollyhock Bloom is a muted pink, close to mauve.

It can be described as muted, dull, matte and soft.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Hollyhock Bloom

Alcea

Alcea is a genus of over 80 species of flowering plants in the mallow family Malvaceae, commonly known as the hollyhocks. They are native to Asia and Europe. The single species of hollyhock from the Americas, the streambank wild hollyhock, belongs to a different genus.

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hollyhock

Noun

  1. Any of several flowering plants of the genus Alcea in the Malvaceae family.
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bloom

Noun

  1. A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.
  2. Flowers.

Verb

  1. To cause to blossom; to make flourish.
  2. To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.
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