who started roses are red violets are blue
Roses Are Red The origins of the poem may be traced at least as far back as to the following lines written in 1590 by Sir Edmund Spenser from his epic The Faerie Queene (Book Three, Canto 6, Stanza 6):[2]
Evolutionary history of plants Flowers are modified leaves possessed only by the angiosperms, which are relatively late to appear in the fossil record. The group originated and diversified during the Early Cretaceous and became ecologically significant thereafter.[102] Flower-like structures first appear in the fossil records some ~130 mya, in the Cretaceous.[103]