Angelique
Plant REWAREWA
Visual
Strong long thick leaves with jagged edges, mid to dark green. Flowers are saffron, red and purple in colour, petals curl and spiral and stamen stick out all around, like a wattle flower (bottle brush). The seed fronds are saffron coloured and look like coral.
Touch
Leaves feel leathery, tough, think, spikey at edges, yet almost brittle, break easily. Flowers are light, delicate, parts shed easily to float away. Seed fronds disintegrate when rubbed.
Smell
Leaves – grassy
Flowers – hay, grass, fresh olive oil
Seeds – spicy, aromatic, musky, fragrant, honey.
Taste
Flower – tannic
Honey – perfumed, floral
1st Level Emotion
Purety, kindness, purpose.
2nd Level Emotion
Compassion, uplift, strength, healing.
Avalyn
Rewarewa
Overall – striking, expressive, hardy, balanced.
Visual Touch Smell Taste
Long sword-like
serrated leaves,
Flowers - pinot
red, curly
corkscrew and
wiry reminds
me of seaweed,
sea creature,
striking yet
delicate
stamens.
Inviting.
Energetic.
Leaves – fierce,
brittle, strong,
protective.
Flower – spongey,
twirly, unexpected
softness and delicacy
belies corkscrew and
wiry looking petals.
Seeds, velvety pods
and exquisitely
dainty seeds.
Leaves – sharp, dry
Flower – sour, fresh
cut grass, then
second layer
sweetness.
Pod – musky,
fragrant, sweet,
ylang ylang
Leaf - ?
Flower – grassy,
woody shavings, olive
oil.
Honey – full, rich
tasting.
Emotion
1 st impressions
Leaves - very yang – fierce and protective.
Both leaves and flowers - drama, festival, celebration, demonstrative, sexy.
Flowers - marine creature, pliable, complex, busting with character and surprise, rising
energy, grounded. Christmas.
2 nd impression after honey
Inner sweetness, more yin qualities evident, well balanced.
Full of chi!