Alcea the official seal ("mon") of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan, and through this influence has maintained importance in modern Japanese culture. For example, it inspired the name and symbol of Mito HollyHock, a professional soccer club in a city formerly led by the Tokugawa family. The Aoi Matsuri (Hollyhock Festival) is one of the three main festivals of the city of Kyoto. During the Victorian era, the hollyhock symbolized both ambition and fecundity in the language of flowers. Alcea Alcea is a genus of about 60 species of flowering plants in the mallow family Malvaceae, commonly known as the hollyhocks.
Caladenia hirta subsp. rosea first formally described by John Lindley in 1840 and the description was published in "A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony" but in 2001 Stephen Hopper and Andrew Brown described two subspecies, including subspecies "rosea" and the description of the two subspecies was published in "Nuytsia". The subspecies name ("rosea") is a Latin word meaning “of roses" referring to the colour of the flowers of this orchid. The pink candy orchid is widespread throughout the south-west bioregion, from Kalbarri in the north to Israelite Bay in the east. It grows in woodland and shrubland as well as