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Language of flowers – cryptological communication through the use or arrangement of flowers; Hanakotoba, also known as 花言葉 – Japanese form of the language of flowers; List of national flowers – flowers that represent specific geographic areas
Tithonia has a center of distribution in Mexico but with one species extending into the Southwestern United States and several native to Central America. Two species, T. diversifolia and T. rotundifolia , are widely cultivated and have escaped to become weeds in tropical and subtropical areas around the world.
Mexican marigold also known as cempasúchil, or Aztec marigold is a native flower to México and was first used by the Aztecs and is used in the Mexican holiday "Día de muertos" or Day of the Dead. Day of the Dead originated from Aztec mythology to honor the Aztec goddess of death Mictēcacihuātl. Tagetes erecta
"श्वेतार्क का पेड" is the name of the tree and flowers are called as "अकौआ" ओर "श्वेतार्क के फूल" in Hindi. In Marathi the local name is Ruhi (pronounced ruheé). In Hindu mythology, it is considered the favourite flower of Lord Shiva and hence its flowers are commonly offered ...
To see a fully awakened person, a Buddha, is so rare that it is like seeing an udumbara flower. In the Tu Hieu Monastery in Hue, there is a scroll which says: "The udumbara flower, although fallen from the stem, is still fragrant." Just as the fragrance of the udumbara flower cannot be destroyed, our capacity for enlightenment is always present.
The name of the flower likely comes from an Old English poem by John Gay about a woman by that name. It probably came over during Colonial times, when the settlers sewed the wildflower on the ...
In iconography, Kalpavriksha, the wish-fulfilling tree, is painted within a picture of a landscape, decorated with flowers, silks, and suspended with jewellery. [3] It is a pattern which has a prominent symbolic meaning. [1] Ornamental Kalpavriksha design was a feature that was adopted on the reverse of the coins and sculptures in the Gupta ...
The tree is called the devil's, monkey's or Mexican hand tree or the hand-flower in English, the árbol de las manitas (tree of little hands) in Spanish, and mācpalxōchitl [2] (palm flower) in Nahuatl, all on account of its distinctive red flowers, which resemble open human hands. The scientific name means "five-fingered hand-flower tree".