My favorite color is yellow like the sunlight.
Cool! Anything interesting about the color 'yellow' in particular?
as egg yolks, buttercups, and bananas. They absorb light energy and protect plants from photodamage. Sunlight has a slight yellowish hue when sun is near a horizon, due to atmosphere scattering shorter wavelengths (green, blue, and violet).
Because it was widely available, yellow ochre pigment was one of the first colors used in art; the Lascaux cave in France has a painting of a yellow horse 17,000 years old. Ochre and orpiment pigments were used to represent gold and skin color in Egyptian tombs, then
Culms of 'Harbin Inversa' appear yellow with many thin green streaks, while lacking the ridges characteristic of 'Harbin.'
A sport of "spectabilis" called 'Argus' shares the same robust growth qualities
and color as "spectabilis" but with additional green vertical stripes
scattered around the whole circumference of each culm.
The all green form 'Alata' lacks any yellow culm coloring.
In spring, yellow portions of new "aureosulcata"
culms that receive direct sunlight during the early cool hours