Heliotrope most often refers to: *

Heliotrope (color) Heliotrope is a pink-purple tint that is a representation of the colour of the heliotrope flower. The first recorded use of heliotrope as a color name in English was in 1882. Variations Heliotrope gray The color heliotrope gray is display ...

, a pink-purple color, named for the color of the flowering plants * ''

Heliotropium ''Heliotropium'' is a genus of flowering plants in the heliotrope family, Heliotropiaceae. There are around 325 species in this almost cosmopolitan genus, which are commonly known as heliotropes (sg. ). It is highly toxic for dogs and cats. ...

'', a genus of flowering plants Heliotrope may also refer to:

Natural science

Heliotrope (mineral) The mineral aggregate heliotrope (), also known as bloodstone, is a cryptocrystalline mixture of quartz that occurs mostly as jasper (opaque) or sometimes as chalcedony (translucent). The "classic" bloodstone is opaque green jasper with red inc ...

, a variety of jasper or chalcedony *

Heliotropism Heliotropism, a form of tropism, is the diurnal or seasonal motion of plant parts (flowers or leaves) in response to the direction of the Sun. The habit of some plants to move in the direction of the Sun, a form of tropism, was already known by ...

, plants' diurnal motion in response to the sun's movement

Art, media and entertainment

* ''Heliotrope'', a story collection by

Justina Robson Justina Robson (born 11 June 1968 in Leeds, England) is a science fiction author from Leeds, England. Biography and publishing history Justina Robson was born in Leeds on 11 June 1968, and studied philosophy and linguistics at the University o ...

Heliotropes (band) Heliotropes were a psychedelic/alternative rock band from Brooklyn, New York, consisting of Richard Thomas (bass), Cici Harrison (drums), Amber Myers (tambourine, vocals) and Jessica Numsuwankijkul (vocals, guitar). They formed in 2009 when Numsuw ...

, a Brooklyn-based band * "Heliotrope" (song), by

At the Drive-In At the Drive-In was an American post-hardcore band from El Paso, Texas, formed in 1994. The band's most recent line-up consisted of Cedric Bixler-Zavala (vocals), Omar Rodríguez-López (guitar, vocals), Paul Hinojos (bass), Tony Hajjar (drums) ...

* "Heliotrope", a song by

Robyn Hitchcock Robyn Rowan Hitchcock (born 3 March 1953) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. While primarily a vocalist and guitarist, he also plays harmonica, piano, and bass guitar. After leading the Soft Boys in the late 1970s and releasing th ...

on the album ''

Moss Elixir ''Moss Elixir'' is an album by Robyn Hitchcock, released in 1996. It contains twelve original compositions, predominantly acoustic. ''Moss Elixir'' came packaged in green and gold, continuing the theme of his earlier solo acoustic albums, ''I O ...

'' *

Heliotrope Studios Heliotrope Studios was a video game developer active in the 1990s. Heliotrope was started as Changeling Software in 1990, a Macintosh The Mac (known as Macintosh until 1999) is a family of personal computers designed and marketed by Apple In ...

, a video game developer * ''Heliotrope'', a lost 1920 American silent drama film * Miss Heliotrope, the governess in

Elizabeth Goudge Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge FRSL (24 April 1900 – 1 April 1984) was an English writer of fiction and children's books. She won the Carnegie Medal for British children's books in 1946 for '' The Little White Horse''. Goudge was long a popul ...

's children's book, ''

The Little White Horse ''The Little White Horse'' is a low fantasy children's novel by Elizabeth Goudge, first published by the University of London Press in 1946 with illustrations by C. Walter Hodges, and Anne Yvonne Gilbert in 1992. Coward–McCann published a ...

Other uses

* Heliotrope, a distinctive rash associated with

dermatomyositis Dermatomyositis (DM) is a long-term inflammatory disorder which affects skin and the muscles. Its symptoms are generally a skin rash and worsening muscle weakness over time. These may occur suddenly or develop over months. Other symptoms may in ...

, including juvenile dermatomyositis *

Heliotrope (instrument) The heliotrope is an instrument that uses a mirror to reflect sunlight over great distances to mark the positions of participants in a land survey. The heliotrope was invented in 1821 by the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. The word ...

, in surveying, a long distance survey target based on mirror-reflected sunlight *

Heliotrope (building) The Heliotrope is a design of environmentally friendly housing by German architect Rolf Disch. Three such buildings exist in Germany; the first experimental version was built in 1994 as the architect's home in Freiburg im Breisgau, while the othe ...

, a rotating home built by

Rolf Disch Rolf Disch is a German architect, solar energy pioneer and environmental activist. Born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, Disch has dedicated particular focus to regional renewable and sustainable energy. As head of his own architecture firm, Ro ...

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