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Plants of the Bible, Missouri Botanical Garden; Project "Bibelgarten im Karton" (biblical garden in a cardboard box) of a social and therapeutic horticultural group (handicapped persons) named "Flowerpower" from Germany; List of biblical gardens in Europe; Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Plants in the Bible" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York ...
Chrysanthemum: general: fidelity, optimism, joy and long life; ... List of national flowers – flowers that represent specific geographic areas;
Illumination of a unicorn (a symbol of the incarnation of Christ, of innocence and purity) falling asleep on the lap of a virgin. The border shows plants which symbolise the virtues of the Virgin Mary, such woodland strawberries, roses and violets; Mary's robe is blue, a traditional colour attribution.
nancho a native wild orchid is associated with spring has come to symbolize nobility, loyalty and fidelity; bamboo is associated with summer and likened to a gentlemen's dignity and service to others; and; chrysanthemums, especially an elixir made from yellow chrysanthemums, is associated with autumn and believed to lead to longevity.
The chrysanthemum is said to have been favored by Tao Qian, an influential Chinese poet, and is symbolic of nobility. It is also one of the four symbolic seasonal flowers. A chrysanthemum festival is held each year in Tongxiang, near Hangzhou, China. [27] Chrysanthemums are the topic in hundreds of poems of China. [28]
Tanacetum balsamita is a perennial temperate herb known as costmary, [2] alecost, [3] balsam herb, bible leaf, or mint geranium. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] A fragrant plant native to southern Europe and western Asia , it has been used over centuries for culinary, aromatic , and traditional medicine purposes.
Just like birthstones, there's a birth flower for every month! November has two birth flowers. Here's what they mean.
The Crucifix, a cross with corpus, a symbol used in the Catholic Church, Lutheranism, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and Anglicanism, in contrast with some other Protestant denominations, Church of the East, and Armenian Apostolic Church, which use only a bare cross Early use of a globus cruciger on a solidus minted by Leontios (r. 695–698); on the obverse, a stepped cross in the shape of an ...