Flower Language
Kuah Koon Boon, Emil
Hi again!
Given the impending 14th of Feburary cuddle-fest, I felt compelled to
post this info about flowers that I found in a local NG. Hope it helps
to bring that special something into someone's heart on this very
special day.
Flowers and Their Meanings
FLOWER MEANING
ABUTILON Meditation
ACACIA (Rose or White) Elegance; friendship
ACACIA (Yellow) Secret love
ACANTHUS Artifice; fine arts
ACHILLEA War
ACONITE Lustre; misanthropy
ADDER'S-TONGUE Jealousy
ADONIS Sad memories
AGERATUM ?
AGRIMONY Gratitude
ALLSPICE Compassion
ALMOND (Common) Indiscretion; perfidy
ALOE Grief; misplaced devotion; religious
superstition
ALTHEA Consumed by love
ALYSSYM (Sweet) Excellence beyond beauty; exemplary
modesty
AMARANTH (Coxcomb) Affectation; pretension
AMARANTH (Globe) Constant; unchangeable
AMARANTH Foppery; immortality; pretension
AMARYLLIS Beautiful; timid; proud
AMBROSIA Love returned
ANEMONE Fading hope
ANGELICA Inspiration; magic
APOCYNUM Falsehood; figment; I doubt you
APPLE-BLOSSOM Preference
ARBOR-VITAE (American) Immortality
ARBOR-VITAE I never change; live for me
ARBUTUS You only do I love
ASCLEPIAS Sorrowful remembrance
ASH Prudence; with me you are safe
ASMINE (Night-blooming) Love's vigil
ASPEN Excess of sensibility; fear
ASPHODEL Memorial sorrow; my regrets follow you
to the
grave
ASTER (China) Afterthoughts; love of variety
AURICULA (Scarlet) Pride
AURICULA Painting; wealth is not always happiness
AZALEA Moderation; temperance; your blush has
won me
BACHELOR'S BUTTON Celibacy; hope in love
BALM Social intercourse; sympathy
BALSAM Impatience
BARBERRY Sharpness of temper
BASIL Hatred
BAY-LEAF I change but in death
BAYBERRY Discipline; instruction
BEGONIA Deformity
BELLFLOWER Constancy; gratitude; I wish to speak to
you
BELLWORT Hopelessness
BETONY Surprise
BILBERRY Treachery
BITTERSWEET Truth; platonic love
BLACKTHORN Difficulty
BLUEBELL Constancy; sorrowful regret
BLUEBOTTLE Delicacy
BLUETS Contentment
BORAGE Bluntness; talent
BRAMBLE Holiness; remorse
BROOM Humility; neatness
BRYONY Prosperity
BURDOCK Importunity
BUTTERCUP Riches
BUTTERFLY-WEED Let me go
CACTUS Grandeur; warmth
CALLA LILY Magnificent beauty
CALYCANTHUS Benevolence
CAMELLIA (Red) Unpretending excellence; innate warmth;
alas my poor heart
CAMELLIA (White) Perfected loveliness; without
blemish
CAMOMILE Energy in adversity
CANDYTUFT Indifference
CANTERBURY BELLS Gratitude; acknowledgement;
obligation
CARDAMINE Paternal error
CARDINAL-FLOWER Distinction
CARNATION (White) Disdain
CARNATION Woman's love
CARNATION PINK Woman's love
CATALPA Beware of the coquette
CATCHFLY Pretended love; snare,
unchanging friendship
CATTLEYA Matronly grace; mature charms
CEDAR I live but for thee; think of me
CELANDINE Joys to come
CENTAURY Delicacy
CEREUS (Night-blooming) Transient beauty
CHERRY-BLOSSOM Spiritual beauty
CHESTNUT-BLOSSOM Do me justice
CHICKWEED Give an account of yourself;
rendezvous
CHICORY Frugality
CHRYSANTHEMUM (Chinese) Loveliness and cheerfulness
CHRYSANTHEMUM (Red) I love
CHRYSANTHEMUM (White) Truth
CHRYSANTHEMUM (Yellow) Dejection; slighted love
CINERARIA Always delighted
CINQUEFOIL Maternal affection
CISTUS Popular favour
CITRON Natured beauty
CLEMATIS (Evergreen) Poverty
CLEMATIS Mental Beauty
CLIANTHUS Self-seeking; worldliness
CLOTBUR Rudeness
CLOVER (Four-leafed) Be mine
CLOVER (Red) Industry; not only gay, but good
CLOVER (White) Think of me
CLOVES Dignity
COBAEA Gossip
COLTSFOOT Justice shall be done
COLUMBINE Folly
CONVOLVULUS (Great) Despondency; extinguished hopes
CONVOLVULUS (Pink) Worth sustained by affection
CONVOLVULUS Uncertainty
CORCHORUS Return quickly
COREOPSIS Always cheerful
CORIANDER Hidden worth
CORN-BLOSSOM Riches
CORN-COCKLE Peerless and proud
CORNEL Success crowned you
CORNFLOWER Delicacy; refinement
COWSLIP Comeliness; winning grace; you are my
divinity
COXCOMB Foppery
CRABAPPLE-BLOSSOM Irritability
CRANBERRY Cure for heartache
CREEPING CEREUS Modest genius
CRESS Power; stability
CROCUS Abuse not; gladness; mirth
CROWFOOT Ingratitude
CROWN IMPERIAL Arrogance; majesty; pride of birth
CUCKOO FLOWER Ardor
CUDWEED Unceasing remembrance
CURRANT Your frown will destroy me
CUSCUTA Meanness
CYCLAMEN Diffidence
CYPRESS Despair; mourning
DAFFODIL Deceitful; hope; unrequited
love; regard
DAHLIA Elegance and dignity; forever
thine
DAISY (Coloured) Beauty
DAISY (Michaelmas) Farewell
DAISY (White wild) I will think of it
DAISY Innocence
DANDELION Coquetry; love's oracle
DAPHNE Fame; glory
DARNEL Vice
DEW-PLANT Serenade
DIOSMA Your simple elegance charms me
DITTANY OF CRETE (White) Passion
DOCK Patience
DODDER OF THYME Baseness
DOGBANE Falsehood
DOGROSE Pleasure
DOGWOOD Forgetfulness; love undiminished by
EGLANTINE Genius; I wound to heal; poetry;
talent
ELDER Compassion; zealousness
ENDIVE Frugality
ESCHSCHOLTZIA Do not refuse me
EUPATORIUM Delay
EYEBRIGHT Cheer up
FENNEL Strength; worthy of praise
FERN Fascination; magic; sincerity
FIG Argument; I keep my secret
FILBERT Reconciliation
FIR Time
FLAX Domestic industry; fate; I feel
your kindness
FLEUR-DE-LIS Message
FLOWER-OF-AN-HOUR Delicate beauty
FLOWERING ALMOND Hope
FORGET-ME-NOT Constancy; true love
FOUR-LEAFED CLOVER Be mine
FOUR-O'CLOCK Timidity
FOXGLOVE Insincerity; stateliness; youth
FOXTAIL GRASS Sporting
FUCHSIA Confiding love
FUMITORY Spleen
FURZE Anger; love for all occasions
GARDEN DAISY Share your sentiments
GARDENIA Refinement
GENTIAN (Closed) Sweet be thy dreams
GENTIAN (Fringed) I look to heaven
GERANIUM (Dark) Melancholy
GERANIUM (Fish) Disappointed expectation
GERANIUM (Horseshoe) Stupidity
GERANIUM (Ivy) Favour
GERANIUM (Lemon) Unexpected meeting
GERANIUM (Nutmeg) Expected meeting
GERANIUM (Oak) True friendship
GERANIUM (Pencilled) Ingenuity
GERANIUM (Rose) Preference
GERANIUM (Scarlet) Comforting; consolation
GERANIUM (Silver leafed) Recall
GERANIUM (Wild) Steadfast piety
GERANIUM Gentility; peaceful mind
GILLYFLOWER Bonds of affection; lasting
beauty; she is fair
GLADIOLUS Ready-armed
GOLDENROD Encouragement; precaution
GOOSEBERRY Anticipation
GRANDIFLORA High-souled
GRAPE (Wild) Charity; mirth
GRASS Submission
HANDFLOWER Warning
HAREBELL Grief; submission
HARLEQUIN Laugh at trouble
HAWKWEED Quick-sighted
HAWTHORN Hope
HAZEL Reconciliation; heart is
agitated
HEARTSEASE Modesty; pleasant thoughts;
think of me
HEATH Solitude
HELENIUM Tears
HELIOTROPE Devotion; eagerness; intoxicated
with joy
HELLEBORE Calumny; scandal
HEMLOCK You will cause my death
HEMP Fate
HIBISCUS Delicate beauty
HOLLY Am I forgotten?; domestic
happiness;
HOLLYHOCK Ambition; fruitfulness
HONEY-FLOWER Love sweet and secret
HONEYSUCKLE (Coral) Fidelity; generous and devoted
love; sweetness
of disposition
HONEYSUCKLE (Wild) Inconstancy
HONEYSUCKLE Bonds of love
HOP Injustice
HORNBEAM Ornament
HORSE-CHESTNUT Luxury
HOUSELEEK Domestic industry; vivacity
HOUSTONIA Contentment
HYACINTH (Purple) Jealousy; sorrow
HYACINTH (White) Modest loveliness
HYACINTH Constancy
HYDRANGEA Boaster; heartlessness
HYSSOP Cleanliness
ICE-PLANT Old Beau; rejected; your looks
freeze me
IRIS (German) Aflame; I burn adversity
IRIS Message; my compliments;
eloquence
IVY Fidelity; friendship; marriage;
wedded love
JACOB'S-LADDER Come down
JASMINE (Cape) I am too happy
JASMINE (Carolina) Separation
JASMINE (Indian) Attraction; I attach myself to
you
JASMINE (Spanish) Sensuality
JASMINE (White) Amiability
JASMINE (Yellow) Grace and elegance
JASMINE I am too happy
JONQUIL Can you return my love?; I desire a
return of
your affection
JUDAS-TREE Betrayal; unbelief
KINGCUP Riches
LABURNUM Forsaken; pensive beauty
LADY'S SLIPPER Capricious beauty; win and wear me
LADY'S SMOCK Ardor
LADY'S THIMBLE Grief; submission
LADY'S-TRESSES Bewitching grace
LANTANA I am unyielding
LAPAGERIA There is no unalloyed good
LARCH Audacity; boldness
LARKSPUR (Pink) Fickleness
LARKSPUR (Purple) Haughtiness
LAUREL (Ground) Perseverance; token
LAUREL (Mountain) Ambition
LAUREL Perfidy; treachery
LAURESTINE I die if neglected
LAVENDER Acknowledgment; distrust failure
LEAVES (Dead) Sadness
LEMON Discretion
LETTUCE Cold-hearted
LICHEN Dejection; refusal; solitude
LILAC (Purple) Fastidiousness; first love
LILAC (White) Youthful innocence
LILY (Calla) Maiden modesty; beauty
LILY (Day) Coquetry
LILY (Frog) Disgust
LILY (Tiger) I dare you to love me
LILY (Water) Purity of heart
LILY (White) Purity and sweetness
LILY (Yellow) Coquetry; falsehood; flirtation
LILY-OF-THE-VALLEY Perfect purity; return of
happiness
LINDEN Conjugal love
LIVE-OAK Liberty
LIVERWORT Confidence
LOBELIA Arrogance; malevolence
LOCUST Affection beyond the grave; vicissitude
LONDON-PRIDE Frivolity
LOTUS Estranged love
LOVE-IN-A-MIST Perplexity
LOVE-LIES Bleeding; hopeless but not
heartless
LUCERNE Life
LUPINE (Rose) Fanciful
LUPINE (White) Always happy
LUPINE Voraciousness
MADDER Backbiting; tranquillity
MAGNOLIA (Swamp) Perseverance
MAGNOLIA Benevolence; high-souled; love
of nature;
magnificence
MAIZE Riches
MALLOW Mildness
MANCHINEEL Falsehood
MANDRAKE I wound to soothe
MAPLE Reserve; retirement
MARIGOLD Cruelty in love; inquietude;
jealous lover
MARJORAM Blushes
MARSHMALLOW Beneficence in consent
MARVEL-OF-PERU Timidity
MEADOW-SAFFRON My best days are past
MEADOWSWEET Uselessness
MESEMBRYANTHEMUM Idleness
MEZEREON Desire to please
MIGNONETTE Your qualities surpass your
charms
MILFORD War
MILK-VETCH Your presence softens my pain;
comfort
MIMOSA Exquisite; fastidious
MINT Let us be friends again; virtue
MISTLETOE In surmount difficulties; I want
to be kissed;
you are a parasite
MOCK-ORANGE Counterfeit
MONARDA Your whims are unbearable
MONK'S-HOOD Chivalry
MONKSHEAD Danger is near
MOONFLOWER I only dream of love
MORNING-BRIDE I have lost all
MORNING-GLORY Affection; departure
MOSCHATEL Weakness
MOSS Ennui
MOSS ROSEBUD Confession of love
MOTHERWORT Concealed love
MOUNTAIN ASH Prudence
MOURNING-BRIDE Unfortunate to attachments
MUDWORT Happiness; peace
MULBERRY (Black) I shall not survive you; sadness
MULBERRY (White) Wisdom
MULLEIN Take courage
MUSK-PLANT Be bolder
MUSTARD I smart; I am hurt
MYRTLE (Wax) Discipline; instruction
MYRTLE Love in absence
NANDINA My love will grow warmer
NARCISSUS Egotism; you love yourself too
well
NASTURTIUM Patriotism
NETTLE Slander; you are spiteful
NIGHTSHADE Your thoughts are dark
OAK Hospitality
OAT I love your music
OLEANDER Beware
OLIVE Peace
ORANGE-BLOSSOM Chastity; bridal festivities
ORCHID You are a belle; you flatter me
ORCHIS (Bee) Error; industry
ORCHIS (Butterfly) Gaiety
ORCHIS (Fly) Error
OXEYE Be patient
PALM Victory
PANSY Modesty; pleasant thoughts;
think of me
PARSLEY Useful knowledge; festivity gaiety
PASQUEFLOWER You have no claims
PASSION FLOWER Faith; holy love; religious fervour and
superstition
PEA (Everlasting) Appoint a meeting; lasting
pleasure
PEACH-BLOSSOM I am your captive
PEAR-BLOSSOM Not altogether lovely; affections
PENNYROYAL You had better go
PEONY Anger; indignation; bashfulness
PEPPER-FLOWER Satirical thoughts
PERIWINKLE (Blue) Early friendship
PERIWINKLE (White) Harmony; pleasure of memory
PERSICARIA Restoration
PERSIMMON-BLOSSOM Bury me amid nature's beauties; I shall
surprise you by and by
PETUNIA You soothe me
PHEASANT'S-EYE I cannot forget you
PHLOX (Star-shaped) Affability; trying to please
you; agreements
PHLOX Unanimity
PIMPERNEL Assignation; change
PINE Pity
PINK (Double-red) Ardent love
PINK (Indian) Always lovely
PINK (Mountain) Aspiration
PINK (Variegated) Refusal
PINK (White) Fascination; talent
PLUM (Wild) Independence
PLUM-BLOSSOM Keep your promises; fidelity
PLUMBAGO Holy wishes
POLYANTHUS Purse-proud
POMEGRANATE BLOSSOM Mature elegance; perfection
POPPY (Red) Consolation
POPPY (Scarlet) Fantastic extravagance
POPPY (Variegated) Flirtation; dreaminess
POPPY (White) Forgetfulness
POTENTILLA I claim your esteem
PRIDE OF CHINA Dissension
PRIMROSE (Evening) Inconstancy; early youth
PRIMROSE (Red) Neglected merit
PRIMROSE Believe me; youth and sadness
PRINCE'S FEATHER I blush for you
PRIVET Prohibition
PYXIE Life is sweet
QUAKING-GRASS My
QUAMOCLIT Busybody
QUEEN-OF-THE-MEADOWS Uselessness
QUINCE-BLOSSOM Temptation
RAGGED-ROBIN Ardor
RANUNCULUS I am dazzled by your charms
RASPBERRY-BLOSSOM Remorse
RHODODENDRON Beware; I am dangerous
ROCKET Rivalry
ROSE (Austrian) You are all that is lovely
ROSE (Bridal) Happy love
ROSE (Burgundy) Unconscious beauty
ROSE (Cabbage) Ambassador of love
ROSE (Carolina) Love is dangerous
ROSE (China) Beauty always new
ROSE (Damask) Beauty ever new; young and brilliant
ROSE (Deep-red) Admiration; bashful; embarrassment
ROSE (Full-blown) Engagement
ROSE (Guelder) Age; winter
ROSE (Half-blown) Timid love
ROSE (Jacqueminot) I am true
ROSE (Japan) Beauty is your only attraction;
illusion
ROSE (Marechal niel) Yours, heart and soul
ROSE (Montiflora) Grace
ROSE (Moss) Superior; confessions of love
ROSE (Musk) Capricious beauty
ROSE (Pink) Ours must be secret love
ROSE (Red) Unity; romantic love
ROSE (Rock) Popular favour
ROSE (Thornless) Ingratitude
ROSE (White) I am worthy of your love;
silence; innocent
love
ROSE (White, withered) I am in despair
ROSE (Wild) Charming simplicity
ROSE (Yellow) Jealousy; let us forget; love is
waning;
friendship
ROSE (York-and-Lancaster) Conflict
ROSE Love
ROSE-LEAF You may hope
ROSEBUD (Red) Inclined to love; pure and lovely
ROSEBUD (White) Too young to love
ROSEMARY Remember me
RUDBECKIA Impartiality
RUE Disdain; fertility
SAFFRON Beware of excess pleasures;
voluptuousness; you
are perfectly lovely
SAGE Domestic virtues; great respect
SAINFOIN You confuse me
SALVIA (Blue) Wisdom
SALVIA (Red) Untiring energy
SATINFLOWER Fascination
SAXIFRAGE Affection
SCABIOUS (Sweet) Widowhood
SCABIOUS Unfortunate love
SEA-BINDWEED Uncertainty
SENSITIVE-PLANT Fine sensibility
SENVY I smart
SHAMROCK Loyalty
SHEPHERD'S PURSE I offer you my all
SMILAX Constancy
SNAPDRAGON No, presumption
SNOWBALL Bound thoughts of heaven
SNOWDROP Consolation; friendship in
trouble
SORREL (Wild) Ill-timed wit
SORREL (Wood) Secret sweetness
SOUTHERNWOOD Bantering; jest
SPEEDWELL Womanly fidelity
SPIDERFLOWER Not so bad as I seem
SPIDERWORT Esteem but not love
ST. JOHN'S-WORT Animosity
STAR OF BETHLEHEM Atonement
STARWORT Afterthought
STEPHANOTIS Come to me
STOCK Lasting beauty
STONECROP Tranquillity
STRAW Agreement
SUMAC (Dwarf) Adoration
SUMAC I shall survive the change
SUNFLOWER (Large) You are splendid
SWEET BASIL Good wishes
SWEET-WILLIAM Grant me one smile
SWEETPEA Depart; departure; remember me
SYRINGA You shall be happy yet
TAMARISK Crime
TANSY Resistance
TEAZEL Misanthropy
THISTLE (Scotch) Retaliation
THISTLE Austerity; sternness
THORN-APPLE Delusive beauty
THRIFT Sympathy
TRILLIUM Modest ambition
TRUMPET-FLOWER Fame
TUBEROSE Dangerous
TULIP (Red) Declaration of love
TULIP (Variegated) Enchantment; your eyes are
beautiful
TULIP (Yellow) Hopeless love
TULIP TREE BLOSSOM Rural happiness
TURNIP BLOSSOM Charity
TUSSILAGE You shall have justice
VALERIAN An accommodating disposition
VENUS'S FLY-TRAP Duplicity
VENUS'S LOOKING-GLASS Flattery
VERBENA Pray for me; tender and quick emotion
VERONICA Fidelity
VERVAIN Enchantment; superstition
VIOLET (Blue) Faithfulness; love; loyalty
VIOLET (White) Candour; modesty hope
VIRGIN'S BOWER Filial love
VIRGINIA CREEPER I cling to you
WAKE-ROBIN Ardor-zeal
WALLFLOWER Fidelity in misfortune or
adversity
WATER LILY Purity of the heart
WAX-PLANT Susceptibility
WHEAT Prosperity
WISTARIA Cordial welcome
WITCH-HAZEL Inspiration; Mysticism; a spell
is upon me
WOLFSBANE Misanthropy
WOODBINE Fraternal love
WORMWOOD Absence
XANTHIUM Pertinacity; rudeness
YARROW Cure for heartache
ZEPHYRANTHES Expectation
ZINNIA Thoughts of absent friends
Number Of Flowers And Their Meanings
1 Love at first sight
2 Mutual feelings
3 I love you
7 I am infatuated with you
9 Together as long as we live
10 You are perfect
11 You are my treasured one
12 Be my steady
13 Forever friends
15 I am really sorry
20 I am sincere towards you
21 I am committed to you
36 I will remember our romantic moments
40 My love is genuine
99 I will love you till the day I die
100 I am totally devoted to you
101 You are my one and only
108 Will you marry me
999 My love will last till the end of time
Originally posted by --- ThE vIoLeT vIoLiN vIoLaToR --- in
nus.talk.personal
Just Me,
-Hikaru-
sionell
As if by magic, "Kuah Koon Boon, Emil" <cdt...@nus.edu.sg> *THIS*
appeared on the mantelshelf:
>ALOE Grief; misplaced devotion; religious
> superstition
hmmm.....I use aloe lotion every day.....are you trying to tell me
something? <giggles>
*faeriehugs*
the snuggle faerie
"Abashed, the Devil stood and saw how awful goodness is..."
Velvet Trufflehound
Thankyou Emil for that brilliant thing about flowers...
Anyone got any idea what a *black* rose means???
Cudddddddles, Cinnamon xxxx
--
When the wind is from the west, All the waves that cannot rest,
To the east must thunder on, Where the bright tree of the sun
Is rooted in the ocean's breast.
sionell
I looked up from painting my toenails purple to find Velvet
Trufflehound <ei...@hermes.cam.ac.uk> snuck in and left *THIS* on the
mantleshelf:
>Thankyou Emil for that brilliant thing about flowers...
>Anyone got any idea what a *black* rose means???
Probably means you have Gothic tendencies....<grin>
*blackrosehugs* *blackrosecuddles* *blackrosesnuggles*
*blackrosehugs* *blackrosecuddles* *blackrosesnuggles*
*blackrosehugs* *blackrosecuddles* *blackrosesnuggles*
the snuggle faerie
"Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is exactly the same thing."