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The meaning of the most popular flowers

From the ancient times people of different cultures use flowers not only for decoration purposes, but also as symbols. Presenting a flower or a bouquet could mean a declaration of love, a manifestation of admiration, or anger, or even envy. Properly composed bouquet could say a lot in many cultures – it may warn of a danger or confess eternal love to someone. Every detail plays role here – colors, the number and size of flowers, the foliage, etc.

Actually, every flower could be considered as a message, and, there also could be a reply. This kind of correspondence is much more romantic and much more powerful than usual.

Now some of the flowers meanings are forgotten- well, let's remember them. After all, it is worth knowing about why we like or dislike some colors.

Here is the list of the most popular flowers and what they could mean:

A yellow flower (anything but roses) – treason, betrayal.
Acacia – elegance.
Amaryllis - Pride, splendid beauty, timidity, pastoral poetry.
Anthurium - Hard working, think of me.
Aster - Symbol of love, daintiness, after thought.
Baby’s Breath - Innocence, purity of heart.
Bamboo - The ingredients to a happy life are happiness, wealth and longevity.
Bell – constant.
Birds of Paradise - Freedom, Good Perspective.
Calla Lily - Beauty.
Camellia - Many different meanings for different colors. Red means excellence. White means adorable and lovely. Blue means you are the flame in my heart.
Carnation - Fascination, admiration, pure love, my heart yearns for you, a mother's love, chastity
Chrysanthemum - Cheerfulness, you're a wonderful friend, rest, loveliness, optimism, abundance, wealth, openness, amiability. Red means love. Yellow means slighted love and white means truth.
Daffodil - Chivalry, respect, you are my only one, the sun shines when I'm with you, unrequited love.
Dahlias - Dignity and respect, elegance, good taste, instability.
Daisy - Cheerfulness, you're a wonderful friend, rest, loveliness, optimisim, abundance, wealth. Red means love. Yellow means slighted love and white means truth.
Dandelion - "tell the truth".
English Lavender - Comes from the Latin word lavare meaning to wash.