Another Chinese question

[tanithryudo]

Is there a difference between 寒梅 & 梅花? Or are they the same thing and "寒梅" is just a more poetic expression of plum tree flowers?

What about 腊梅? Image search turns up lots of yellow flowers for this one. Is it a different plant or just a different coloration of the same plant?

Are there any powdered art featuring 梅花 (red colored, possibly with snowy background)? Kind of like my IJ theme is currently featuring peony?

Flower language (Chinese)

Comments

[cashew.insanejournal.com]

寒梅 refers to the plum blossoms that bloom in mid-winter. 梅花 refers to a flower of the rose family that blooms in late winter/early spring. 腊梅 is, as far as I can tell, the same as 寒梅 and is the more commonly used name.

As for the powder art...yeah, um, you'll probably be better off just searching through all the powder arts...

[cashew.insanejournal.com]

Couldn't find any on the old Chinese photo sites (or even find them anymore). Have Aethereality links instead:
http://gallery.aethereality.net/download.php?id=12148
http://gallery.aethereality.net/download.php?id=12531

So those were the only two that I found that had 梅花 in the background (red variation). So um...crop a pretty picture and stick a stock photo in the back?

[tanithryudo.insanejournal.com]

Haha..my network security doesn't seem to like aethereality. Keeps bringing up malware warnings. =/

[cashew.insanejournal.com]

Dude, what did you do? Aethereality just went down on my side of the internet. o.O

You broke the internets!