Color your World: Periwinkle

~ Aletta - nowathome

Periwinkle is a color in the blue and purple family. Its name is derived from the lesser periwinkle or myrtle herb (Vinca  minor) which bears flowers of the same color.

The first recorded use of periwinkle as a color name in English was in 1895.Crayola produced this  crayon in  1958.
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