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Question:Heliotrope is not a colour - it is a plant with fragrant purple flowers the name coming from the greek:
helios - the sun.
tropos - turning.

The plant is so-called because, like many others, the flowers turn towards the sun, the botanic phrase for this is positive phototropism - turning towards the light. (photo = light in greek)


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Heliotrope is not a colour - it is a plant with fragrant purple flowers the name coming from the greek:
helios - the sun.
tropos - turning.

The plant is so-called because, like many others, the flowers turn towards the sun, the botanic phrase for this is positive phototropism - turning towards the light. (photo = light in greek)
It's a shade of lilac / purple.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliotrope_...