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Encyclopedia > Bleeding heart

Bleeding heart can be:

  • An Olivia Lufkin song from the album Flower Festival.
  • A term, usually critical and politically loaded, for someone who is held to be overly sympathetic to another person's (or group of people's) plight.
  • Someone who is emotionally concerned about a person, idea, or event but still refuses to act.
  • An image of religious iconography, depicting the Sacred Heart of Jesus pierced by thorns and bleeding.
  • A magic effect created by magician Dustin Baker, in which the magician slices his arm, then heals himself.
  • A common name of plants of the genus Dicentra, which have heart-shaped flowers.
  • Any of several species of ground dove in the genus Gallicolumba, including
    • Luzon Bleeding-heart, Gallicolumba luzonica
    • Mindanao Bleeding-heart, Gallicolumba crinigera
    • Mindoro Bleeding-heart, Gallicolumba platenae
    • Negros Bleeding-heart, Gallicolumba keayi

Or it may refer to: Olivia Lufkin, often known simply as OLIVIA, born December 9, 1979, in Okinawa, a bilingual Japanese singer (her first language is english). ... Typical illustration of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ The Sacred Heart is a religious devotion to Jesus physical heart. ... Dicentra External links List of dicentra species Categories: Plant stubs | Magnoliopsida ... Subfamilies see article text Feral Rock Pigeon beside Weiming Lake, Peking University Dove redirects here. ... Binomial name Gallicolumba Heck, 1849 Gallicolumba is a genus of ground-dwelling doves which occur in the rainforests on the Philippines, Indonesia, and in the Pacific region. ... Binomial name Gallicolumba luzonica (Scopoli, 1786) The Luzon Bleeding-heart Gallicolumba luzonica is one of a number of species of ground dove in the genus Gallicolumba that are called bleeding-hearts. They get this name from a splash of vivid red colour at the centre of their white breasts. ... Binomial name (Pucheran, 1853) Synonyms Gallicolumba criniger (Pucheran, 1853) (lapsus) The Mindanao Bleeding-heart (Gallicolumba crinigera) is a species of bird in the pigeon and dove family (Columbidae). ... Binomial name Gallicolumba platenae (Salvadori, 1891) This article needs to be wikified. ... Binomial name Gallicolumba keayi (Clarke, 1900) The Negros Bleeding-heart (Gallicolumba keayi) is one of a number of species of ground doves in the genus Gallicolumba that are called bleeding-hearts. They get this name from a splash of vivid red colour at the centre of their white breasts. ...

The phrase is used repeatedly in the film Pink Floyd The Wall. Bleeding Heart Yard is a cobbled courtyard off Greville Street in the Farringdon area of London, UK. The courtyards name refers to the murder of Lady Elizabeth Hatton, whose body was found there on January 27th 1626. ... The Wall is a rock opera and concept album by Pink Floyd. ...

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Bleeding Heart, Gardening, (382 words)
Native to Japan, Bleeding Hearts are excellent perennial for the shade garden and they are very attractive with their light transparent green colour, deeply divided and fern like foliage and blooms are borne on arching flower stems above the foliage.
The Bleeding Heart is fine for the border or margins of shrubbery.
Bleeding Hearts are propagated from seeds, division of the roots or from young shoots which start from the soil.
Floriculture: Fact Sheets: Specific Crops: Forcing Bleeding Heart (1276 words)
Outdoors, garden Bleeding Heart is a hardy perennial best grown in well drained soil in partial shady areas.
Bleeding Heart has a summer resting period and by late summer, the stems die back, often disappearing entirely by August.
Bleeding Heart has stem internodes that tend to elongate excessively making the plants unattractive.
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