Heliotrope (color)

Variations

Heliotrope gray

Heliotrope magenta

Old heliotrope

In culture

• The color has been widely referenced as a characterization, the colour of key plot objects, or as flavor text in many works:
• * Heliotrope was a popular colour reference of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, script writers of Hancock's Half Hour.
• * In James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, "heliotrope" is the answer to the Maggies' riddle. Throughout the chapter, the word "heliotrope" is disguised a number of times, hidden either in anagrams, riddles, puns, or obscure allusions.
• * In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the Polyjuice Potion brewed in order to disguise Hermione Granger as Mafalda Hopkirk is described as having a "pleasant heliotrope colour."
• The periorbital purplish discoloration occurring in dermatomyositis is called the "Heliotrope rash" after the colour.
• Heliotrope was among the handful of "half-mourning" colours worn by Victorians during the last stage of mourning.
• "Heliotrope" is the title of the fourth track on At the Drive-In's 1999 EP Vaya.
• Heliotrope was referenced as a health status condition of the service droid Kryten, in the Red Dwarf Series V episode - Terrorform
• "Heliotrope Bouquet" is a slow drag two step by Scott Joplin composed in 1907.