Flowers decorate our homes, accompany the newlyweds in their engagements, we offer them on the day of a birth or to flower a grave, but what do they really mean?
What is the language of flowers?
Flowers are not simple plants, they have their own symbol and meaning.
Giving flowers can illustrate many feelings.
For the loved one, it is customary to offer red roses while for periods of mourning, chrysanthemums are customary.
If orange flowers symbolize joy but also balance, black flowers refer to sadness and melancholy.
If offering roses expresses a declaration of love, offering a bouquet of anemones announces a breakup, the end of love.
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Flower quiz: test your knowledge
"
The poor girl was turning as red as a
peony
and did not seem to her advantage, thus made up more than reason by the June sun
", wrote George Sand (
Jeanne
1844).
Flowers are full of little stories and symbols, do you know them?
The editorial staff of
Le Figaro invites
you to discover it with this test.