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.
Common garden skink Common garden skink The common garden skink or pale-flecked garden sunskink ("Lampropholis guichenoti") is a species of small common skink endemic to Australia. The specific name, "guichenoti", is in honor of French zoologist Antoine Alphone Guichenot. In Australia "L. guichenoti" is often seen in suburban gardens in Adelaide, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney, and Brisbane, but also is common across most of Southern Australia, Tasmania and some of New South Wales. They are also found in New Zealand, in suburban gardens in Auckland. They have also been known to live in Eastern U.S. "Lampropholis guichenoti" can grow to a maximum of 14