Middlemists

"Middlemist flowers. So beautiful."

Middlemists are a plant species featured on ABC's Once Upon a Time. It first appears in the fourth episode of the fifth season.

Trivia

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On-Screen Notes

 * Middlemists are featured in the title card for "Nimue".
 * The middlemist flower shares its name with the the real-life rose-like flower known as middlemist red. It is the rarest flower in the world, and it is believed there are only two middlemist reds left in the world; one in the Duke of Devonshire's conservatory at Chiswick, West London, and another in Waitangi, New Zealand. The middlemist flower originates from China, and was first brought overseas in 1804 by John Middlemist, from Shepherd's Bush, west London, who gave it to Kew Gardens.


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Production Notes

 * For the meadow scene with Hook and Emma in the episode "Birth", the set was a tiny, round meadow set filled with flowers, surrounded by blue-screen material. It was CGIed into a big flowery meadow in post-production. For the episode "Broken Heart", the [Middlemist Field|middlemist field]] set was surrounded by natural grassy ground rather than blu-screen material.