Color Names

Milkweed

Seeds drifting on silky parachutes, in the pale colour of the plant's milky sap.

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Milkweed is a white, close to green.

It can be described as pale, delicate, faded and luminous.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Milkweed

Milkweed (novel)

Milkweed is a 2003 young adult historical fiction novel by American author Jerry Spinelli. The book is about a boy in Warsaw, Poland in the years of World War II during the Holocaust. Over time he is taken in by a Jewish group of orphans and he must avoid the Nazis while living on the streets with other orphans. Despite being a historical fiction novel, Doctor Korczak, a minor character in the story is based on a real person named Janusz Korczak.

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Asclepias

Asclepias is a genus of herbaceous, perennial, flowering plants known as milkweeds, named for their latex, a milky substance containing cardiac glycosides termed cardenolides, exuded where cells are damaged. Most species are toxic to humans and many other species, primarily due to the presence of cardenolides. However, as with many such plants, some species feed upon milkweed leaves or the nectar from their flowers. A noteworthy feeder on milkweeds is the monarch butterfly, which uses and requires certain milkweeds as host plants for its larvae.

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milkweed

Noun

  1. Any of several plants that have a milky sap and have pods that split to release seeds with silky tufts.
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