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a flower that means love in China and death in France—same petals, opposite endings.
means A showy, many-petaled flower of the daisy family, blooming in dense rounded heads of countless tiny florets, long cultivated in autumn gardens across the world.
from From Greek 'chrysos' (gold) plus 'anthemon' (flower)—literally the 'golden flower,' a name that fit the wild yellow blooms the Greeks knew. It entered English in the 16th century by way of Latin botanical naming, and stuck even as breeders coaxed the petals into reds, whites, and bronzes that the original gold could never have predicted.
- name origin
- Greek for golden flower, chrysos plus anthemon
- japan honor
- the emperor's throne is literally the Chrysanthemum Throne
- secret weapon
- contains pyrethrins, a natural insecticide in real bug sprays
- funeral flower
- in much of Europe, only given for the dead
- edible bloom
- petals brewed into tea across East Asia
chrysanthemum festival tokyo — annual november event at shinjuku gyoen with over 3,000 chrysanthemum plants on display
chrysanthemum stone — natural mineral formation found in china featuring flower-like patterns of celestite crystals
chrysanthemum tea — traditional chinese beverage made from dried chrysanthemum flowers, popular in asia for centuries