The Dicksoniae Flower
23 09 2008Posted By Yousef
My father just gave me a book ‘40 Years In Kuwait’ by Violet Dickson / Om S3ood. I’ve been going through it’s pages for the last hour and a half and I would like to share this paragraph on p147 with you guys:
We went to our yearly camping spot in the desert (Arifjan), but this year camp was different for me coz I had an objective in mind; I wanted to collect every flower, dry it, and then put in the special preserving package Mr. Horwood gave me and then send them to the Kew Museum in London.
I saw a purple plant, it wasn’t too rare, “Khzama,” was what 3amsha used to call it. Khzama means nose earrings, It is called that coz it’s seed look like a Khzama. I sent the first batch of flowers after the spring of 1933 to the museum and it turned out that this specific flower wasn’t known before and had no records, and I was very happy to learn afterwards that Mr. Horwood (Museum manager) named it after his last name and mine’s, he named it “Horwoodia Dicksoniae.”
This is the flower Mrs. Dickson (Om S3ood) saw and sent to london 75 years ago.
i’ve been looking for the english version of that book for ages! it seems very interesting as from the excerpt you posted. i hope i do find it though.
or was it “My life in Kuwait”, i’m not so sure.
check her videos on youtube… etwanis when she talks in Arabic. Its like a mix of dialects and that makes it unique!
nice book you got here
do you know where can i find it in kuwait ?
Oh Yousef, you have a treasure! Love the photo, too!
What a beautiful story. Thank you Yousef for sharing.
Nice photo…
Ansam, I just saw the video.
Thanks
ok then abe bouquet minhaa as well 7ag my birthday
shid 7ailik;p
i like this woman!
um mit3ib, entti kilshay taben? (A)
Yousef Yupa eshtar hadeya 7ag um-it3ib lajatna
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kil ma ya7gerny zood kil ma zadat 6alabaty:P
ni6raw 3alay shahar w bagola aby bait ba3aD:P
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Thanks Yousef for sharing with us ,this beautiful paragraph.
I have to bring that inersting historic book.
Um yasafee