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国花系列:DIANTHUS (摩纳)

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2025-07-28 14:28

Name（名称）: Dianthus, its botanical name, means divine flower. Carnation was the flesh-pink colour Elizabethan portrait painters used as a background wash.

Description（描述）: The carnation is available as a standard carnation - one large flower per stem, or a spray carnation with lots of smaller flowers.

Colour（颜色）: Available in a huge range of colours, almost all except blue. A mauve carnation with a blue tinge has been developed by Florigene in Australia. But they look best in hot Latin shades of red, pink and orange.

Availability（花期）: All year round.

Varieties（种类）: New varieties have been bred which look like old-fashioned garden pinks, but in bright colours. They have daintier relatives, the fantastically fragrant Sweet Williams and Pinks.

Care Tips: Carnations can last up to three weeks but should be kept away from ripening fruit and vegetables becaise of ethylene gas.

Facts: Carnations are the UK's best-selling cut flower, by miles. They are an excellent cut-flower, great value, very long-lasting, Since the 1950's they have been frowned upon by the style gurus, but are now making a comeback.

Folklore（传说）: Used on mothering Sunday. In Canada you wear a red flower if your mother is alive or a white flower if your mother has died.

Language of Flowers（花语）: Red carnation for "alas for my poor heart", striped for refusal, yellow for disdain, pink for woman's love.

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