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.
Canavalia rosea Canavalia rosea Canavalia rosea is a species of flowering plant of the genus "Canavalia" in the pea family, Fabaceae, that has a pantropical distribution. Common names include beach bean, bay bean, seaside jack-bean, coastal jack-bean, and MacKenzie bean. Coastal jack-bean is a trailing, herbaceous vine that forms mats of foliage. Stems reach a length of more than and in thickness. Each compound leaf is made up of three leaflets in diameter, which will fold themselves when exposed to hot sunlight. The flowers are purplish pink and long. The flat pods are long and become prominently ridged as they mature. The