African Violet: The Latest Flower Language and Stories Explained in One Article
African violet, also known as African violet (Saintpaulia), African gesneriad, African purple gesneriad, Saint Paul's flower, and so on, originates from the tropical regions of East Africa, blooms in all four seasons, is an excellent indoor flower, and is also a world-famous potted flower, especially popular in Europe and the Americas. Now let's take a look at the flower language and legends of the African violet!
The Flower Language of the African Violet
The flower language of the African violet: eternal love, but at the same time it also represents her fragility and vulnerability, and her longing for an ideal place to belong.
Varieties of the African Violet
The African violet originates from the tropical regions of East Africa, was later introduced to Europe and the Americas, and has already been cultivated in China. Common varieties include large-flowered, single, semi-double, double, and variegated-leaf types. Flower colors include purple-red, white, blue, pink, and bicolor, and a common cultivated variety is the single-flowered Snow Prince.
The Story of the African Violet
Once, Ellison went to a small town in the south-central United States to give a lecture, and a colleague asked him to stop by and see his unmarried aunt. The colleague said: “My aunt lives alone in an old house, with no relatives or friends. She suffers from extreme depression, and she is rigid and unwilling to change her way of life. Do you see any way to make her change?”
Ellison went to visit his colleague's aunt and found that the woman was even lonelier than described, shut alone in a gloomy century-old house, with not a trace of life around her.
Ellison was a very gentle man, and he politely said to the aunt: “Could you let me look around your house?” The aunt took Ellison through one room after another.
Did Ellison really want to tour the old house? Not exactly. He was looking for something! In this old woman's lifeless environment, he wanted to find something with the breath of life.
Finally, on the windowsill of one room, he found several small pots of African violets —— the only plants in the house with any vitality. The aunt said: “I have nothing to do, so I just like tending these few little things, and this one has even started to bloom.”
Ellison said: “Wonderful! Your flowers are so beautiful that they will surely bring happiness to many people. Could you find out whether any families in town have happy occasions, such as weddings, births, or birthdays, and send them a pot of flowers? They will certainly be overjoyed.”
The aunt really did as Ellison said and grew African violets in large numbers, and almost everyone in town benefited at some point. Needless to say, the aunt's life changed greatly. The old house that had once let in no light became bathed in sunshine, filled with brightly colored little purple flowers.
The aunt, once lonely and helpless, became the most popular person in the city. When she passed away, the local newspaper's headline reported: The whole city mourns the loss of our African Violet Queen.
Almost everyone in the city attended her funeral, to repay her generosity in life.