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Learn more about the symbolic meaning of camellias

Published: 2024-09-19 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/09/19, Camellia blossoms in winter and spring, full of flowers, dignified and elegant, is one of the top ten traditional Chinese flowers, but also one of the world famous flowers. Guo Moruo highly praised and said: Camellia early peach red, a hundred clouds whistling proud. Camellia, not only Camellia is durable, but also can be deep.

Camellia blossoms in winter and spring, full of flowers, dignified and elegant, is one of the top ten traditional Chinese flowers, but also one of the world famous flowers. Guo Moruo praised and said: "A tree of camellias is red in the morning, while a hundred flowers are full of clouds." Camellia not only has the proud plum style of "only camellia is very durable, but only can occupy the spring breeze in the deep moon", but also has the bright color of Ling peony of "flowers are numerous and bright red, deeply seizing Xiaoxia", so it has been a very famous woody flower since ancient times. it reached its peak in the Tang and Song dynasties, and caused a sensation after it was introduced to Europe in the 17th century, thus gaining the reputation of "world famous flowers".

The flower language of camellia is: ideal love, humility. It is said that camellias always bloom quietly in the courtyard when the weather is cooler in late autumn. When the camellia withered, it was not the whole flower that fell, but the petals slowly withered until the end of life. Such a careful and reluctant way of withering is the same as people's attitude towards pursuing their ideal partner, so camellias gradually become a spokesman for women who adore them. In the winter when almost all the flowers have withered, the red camellia makes people feel warm and lively. Moreover, planting in the garden can also make people appreciate her faint scent of flowers. Therefore, camellia makes people feel lovely, humble, ideal love, prudence, great charm.

Camellia, also known as Camellia, is Theaceae, Camellia plants, the ancient name of the sea pomegranate.

Camellia is a traditional ornamental flower in China. It ranks eighth among the "ten famous flowers" and is also one of the most valuable flowers in the world. It is the flower of Yunnan Province, Chongqing, Ningbo, Zhejiang, and Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province.

White camellias: pure and innocent, lovely, perfect charm, true feelings, ideal love, elegance.

Camellia: natural beauty, the virtue of modesty, modesty, noble reason.

Pink and white camellia: wasteful and fashionable.

Pink camellia: overcome difficulties.

Characteristics of camellias:

Camellia is a shrub or small tree plant, leaves leathery, oval, 5-10 cm long, 2.5-5 cm wide, apex slightly pointed, or sharply mucronate with obtuse tip, base broadly cuneate. Petiole 8-15 mm long, glabrous.

Stamens in 3 whorls, ca. 2.5-3 cm long, outer whorl filament base connate, filament tube 1.5 cm long, glabrous; inner whorl stamens free, slightly shorter, ovary glabrous, style 2.5 cm long.

The flowering period of the cultivated variety Camellia is longer, generally starting from October, ending in May of the following year, and blooming from January to March.

Colorful flowers, beautiful and diverse flowers, elegant and polymorphic flowers, fragrant smell, a wide variety of flowers, most of the flowers are red or light red, but also white, mostly double.

 
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