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No such thing as a national flower for France. And if there was one it wouldn’t be the iris anyway. And many other countries don’t have that concept either.
This is some bullshit made up by an American florist trying to sell flowers to people who identify as 1/67th Slovenian.
It’s even worse for Germany - cornflowers are used as Nazi symbolism.
If there was a flower for France it would be the lys of the royalists and that’s not very Charlie
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How to piss off every teacher ever. 🙃
For a good reason, quite a number of these are wrong.
That’s not how the Polish say “flower”. It should be “kwiat”, we don’t have a word “blomst”. Pretty sure we don’t even have a notional flower either.
Whomst blomst? I think that was an error, not that it isn’t full of them, since blomst is danish for flower!
Pretty sure some of these are wrong.
The Swedish national flower is Campanula rotundifolia, which has several common names (common harebell, bluebell).
England doesn’t really have a national flower. The Tudor Rose is a heraldic creation to symbolise the fusion of the House of York and House of Lancaster after the wars of the roses, and the formation of the House of Tudor.
The two houses used white and red roses as symbols, and the Tudor rose was created as a mixed red and white rose which does not exist.
A real rose for England is otherwise a loose thing, not an official symbol.
And they’ve highlighted the whole of the UK for “England”. Scotland has the thistle, Wales has the daffodil and Wikipedia says that flax is widely used as a symbol of Northern Ireland.
I think of England’s rose as red, because of the rugby.
The thisle and daffodil are shown further down on the infographic, where they break out wales and scotland from the giant england
Oh, you’re right - somehow I missed seeing the entire bottom third of the image.
Loving Greater England there.
It’s all England, except for when it’s not
If there was one, in Portugal it would be carnation
Cool. I didn’t know we had a national flower.
But there are a lot of flowers in Europe, why are so many repeating? Is it really your national flower if 5 other countries have the same?
I would guess that is because a lot of these are just made up. For example, Germany does not have a “national flower”.
As many here have commented, the map is pretty bad and lots of these are not officially recognized as national flowers.
Having said that, actual national flowers, much like national animals, are often just whatever commonly grows in the country (assuming there is one flower that really sticks out).
They don’t have to be unique, because you’ll have a flag or a coat of arms for that purpose (which may portray that flower or animal, for what it’s worth). So, they’re rather just part of the “national branding”, if you will.
That flower is not an actual national symbol of Greece, even if its stylized representations are ubiquitous in ancient decorative arts. The national plants are the olive and the laurel.
