love flower

Interesting Information : The flower was adopted on December 2, 1942.

Traditional meanings

• love and affection.
• White carnations represent pure love and good luck, while striped (variegated) 
• carnations symbolise regret that a love cannot be shared.
• Purple carnations indicate capriciousness. In France, it is a traditional funeral flower, given in condolence for the death of a loved one.
• In France and Francophone cultures, carnations symbolize misfortune and bad luck.
• Pink carnations have the most symbolic and historical significance. According to a Christian legend, carnations first appeared on Earth as Jesus carried the Cross. The Virgin Mary shed tears at Jesus' plight, and carnations sprang up from where her tears fell. Thus the pink carnation became the symbol of a mother's undying love.
• Carnation is the birth flower for those born in the month of January

Interesting Information : Bangladesh adopted the flower in 1971.

Nymphaea nouchali is a day blooming nonviviparous plant with submerged 

roots and stems.Part of the leaves are submerged, while others rise slightly

 above the surface. The leaves are round and green on top; they usually have 

a darker underside. The floating leaves have undulating edges that give them a 

crenellateappearance. Their size is about 20–23 cm and their spread is 0.9 to 1.8 m

This water-lily has a beautiful flower which is usually violet blue in color with reddish edges. Some varieties have white, purple, mauve or fuchsia-colored flowers. The flower has 4-5 sepals and 13-15 petals that have an angular appearance making the flower look star-shaped from above. The cup-like calyx has a diameter of 11–14 cm.

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Barbados : Pride of Barbados, also known as Dwarf Poinciana & Flower Fence (Poinciana Pulcherrima)

Interesting Information : More common varieties of the flower 

are those with a fiery red and yellow "sunset color".

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Belarus: Flax (Linum Usitatissimum)

Interesting Information : The flowers last only until the heat of the mid-day sun hits them.

Flax is an erect annual plant growing to 1.2 m (3 ft 11 in) tall, with slender stems.

 The leaves are glaucous green, slender lanceolate, 20–40 mm long 

and 3 mm broad. The flowers are pure pale blue, 15–25 mm diameter,

 with five petals; they can also be bright red. The fruit is a round, dry 

apsule 5–9 mm diameter, containing several glossy brownseeds 

haped like an apple pip, 4–7 mm long.

In addition to referring to the plant itself, the word "flax" may refer to the unspun fibres of the flax plant.

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Belgium : Red Poppy (Papaver Rhoeas)

Interesting Information : The plant is a variable annual, forming a long-lived soil seed bank that can 

germinate when the soil is disturbed. In the northern hemisphere it generally

 flowers in late spring, but if the weather is warm enough other flowers frequently 

appear at the beginning of autumn. The flower is large and showy,

with four petals that are vivid red, most commonly with a black spot at 

their base. Like many other species of Papaver, it exudes a white latex 

when the tissues are broken.

It is known to have been associated with agriculture in the Old World since early times. It has most of the characteristics of a successful weed of agriculture. These include an annual lifecycle that fits into that of most cereals, a tolerance of simple weed control methods, the ability to flower and seed itself before the crop is harvested.

The leaves and latex have an acrid taste and are mildly poisonous to grazing animals.

Its origin is not known for certain. As with many such plants, the area of origin is often ascribed by Americans to Europe, and by northern Europeans to southern Europe. The European Garden Flora suggests that it is ‘Eurasia and North Africa’; in other words, the lands where agriculture has been practiced since the earliest times. It has had an old symbolism and association with agricultural fertility.

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Belize : Black Orchid (Trichoglottis Brachiata)

Interesting Information : Black Orchids acquired the name by 

virtue of their very dark intense color, which tends to be dark brown and maroon.

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Bermuda : Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium Montanum) 

The Blue-eyed Grass is a member of the iris family.

Interesting Information : 

These are not true grasses, but many species have the general appearance 

of grasses, as they are low-growing plants with long, thin leaves. They often

 grow on grasslands. Many species resemble irises, to which they are more 

closely related. Most species grow as perennial plants, from a rhizome, though some are short-lived (e.g. S. striatum), and some are annuals (e.g. S. iridifolium).

The flowers are relatively simple and often grow in clusters.

Many species, particularly the South American ones, are not blue, despite the common name. The genus includes species with blue, white, yellow, and purple petals, often with a contrasting centre. Of the species in the United States, the Western Blue-eyed Grass, Sisyrinchium bellum, is sometimes found with white flowers, while the California Golden-eyed Grass, Sisyrinchium californicum, has yellow flowers.

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Bhutan : Blue poppy (Meconopsis Betonicifolia)

The flower is native to the rocky mountain slopes of Tibet.

Interesting Information :

Meconopsis betonicifolia, also known as Meconopsis baileyi 

and the Himalayan blue poppy, was first discovered in 1912, by Lt. 

Col. Frederick Marshman Bailey.

M. betonicifolia is hardy in most of the United Kingdom and it has striking large blue flowers but it probably owes much of its success to the fact that, unlike most Meconopsis, it is perennial.

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Bohemia : Thyme (Thymus Vulgaris)

The pale pink flowers bloom at the tips of the stems in summer

Thymus vulgaris or common thyme is a low growing herbaceous plant,

 sometimes becoming somewhat woody. It is native to southern Europe,

 where it is often cultivated as a culinary herb.

It typically grows as a sub-shrub, between 15 and 20 cm tall.

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Bolivia : Kantuta (Cantua Buxifolia)

The tubular flowers come in wild form, magenta, bicolor and subtile (slightly bicolored) varieties.

The Cantuta (Quechua: qantu; binomial name: Cantua buxifolia), 

often spelled Kantuta or Qantuta, is a flowering plantfound in the high

 valleys of the yungas. It is the national flower of Peru and one of two 

national flowers of Bolivia, the other being the Patujú. The Bolivian 

national flower is in fact a particular variety of Cantuta, the "Kantuta Tricolor" 

which has red petals, a yellow floral tube and a green calyx, reflecting the colors of the national flag.

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Brazil : Cattleya Orchid (Cattleya Labiata)

Cattleya orchids are commonly called "corsage orchids" 

as the blooms are frequently used in corsages due to their 

exceptional beauty and fragrance.

Cattleya  is a genus of 113 species of orchids from Costa Rica to tropical South

 America. The genus was named in 1824 by John Lindleyafter Sir William Cattley who received and successfully cultivated specimens of Cattleya labiata that were used as packing material in a shipment of other orchids made by William Swainson. The genus is abbreviated C in trade journals.

They are widely known for their large, showy flowers, and were used extensively in hybridization for the cut-flower trade until the 1980's when pot plants became more popular. This genus and the numerous hybrids come close, through their beauty, to the idealized picture we have of the orchids. The flowers of the hybrids can vary in size from 5 cm to 15 cm or more. They occur in all colors except true blue and black.

The typical flower has three rather narrow sepals and three usually broader petals: two petals are similar to each other, and the third is the quite different conspicuous lip, featuring various markings and specks and an often frilly margin. At the base, the margins are folded into a tube. Each flower stalk originates from a pseudobulb. The number of flowers varies; it can be just one or two, or sometimes up to ten.

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British Columbia : Dogwood Tree Flower (Cornus Nuttallii)

The four-petaled white flowers bloom in spring.

The genus Cornus is a group of about 30-60 species of woody 

plants in the family Cornaceae, commonly known as dogwoods. 

Most dogwoods are deciduous trees or shrubs, but a few species 

are nearly herbaceous perennial subshrubs, and a few of the woody species are evergreen. Several species have small heads of inconspicuous flowers surrounded by an involucre of large, typically white petal-like bracts, while others have more open clusters of petal-bearing flowers. The various species of dogwood are native throughout much of temperate and boreal Eurasia and North America, withChina and Japan and the southeastern United States particularly rich in native species.

The dogwoods include the common dogwood (Cornus sanguinea) of Eurasia, the widely cultivated flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) of eastern North America, the Pacific dogwood (Cornus nuttallii) of western North America, the Kousa Dogwood (Cornus kousa) of eastern Asia, and two low-growing boreal species, the Canadian and Eurasian dwarf cornels (or bunchberries), Cornus canadensis and Cornus suecica, respectively.

Depending on botanical interpretation, the dogwoods are variously divided into one to nine genera or subgenera; a broadly inclusive genus Cornus is accepted here, with four subgenera.

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