Why is Polytrichum commune the birthday flower for Aquarius?

The Polytrichum commune plant body is robust, dark green to greenish-brown, with stems 10-25cm tall, single or rarely branched. Leaves are spreading, curling when dry and spreading when wet. The upper part of the leaf is rather pointed, the base is sheathing, and both the midrib above the sheath and the back of the leaf bear spiny projections. Dioecious. The male plants are somewhat shorter, with the male organs at the tip resembling flower buds; the female plants are taller and more robust, bearing terminal spore capsules, with setae 10cm long, reddish-brown, and the female bract leaves long and narrow, the midrib reaching the tip. The capsule is four-angled, rectangular; the calyptra covers the entire capsule; the operculum is flat with a short beak; the peristome teeth are in a single layer; spores are small and round, yellow, smooth. February 8 birthday flower.

Polytrichum commune

Evergreen small herb, 10~30 cm tall, mostly growing in dense patches, stems unbranched, the upper part dark green, the lower part densely covered with rhizoids, turning brownish-red or dark red when old. The upper leaves are spirally crowded, the lower leaves gradually smaller and sparser; leaves long-lanceolate, the apex abruptly forming a spiny tip, the margins finely serrate. Unisexual and dioecious; the male plants are somewhat shorter, with male organs at the tip resembling flower buds, and new shoots often growing from the center; the female plants are taller and more robust, bearing terminal four-angled columnar spore capsules, with setae up to 10 cm long, the spore capsules brownish-red. Erect when young, often becoming bent and drooping when old, the spore capsules covered on the outside by a membranous calyptra, brownish-yellow, spores minute, spherical, yellow, smooth.

Polytrichum commune

Flower language: relief

Polytrichum commune is the flower commemorating Saint Eumarius, who founded the Order of the Holy Trinity. Its main mission was to buy back Christians captured by Muslims during the Crusades, a so-called relief order. Therefore its flower language is - relief.

People born under the blessing of this flower are full of compassion and kind-hearted. They are very proactive and enterprising in love, one could say wholeheartedly, immersing even their soul in it.

Polytrichum commune

Commemoration:

12th-century French saint, the flower of Saint Eucharius

Since ancient times, Christianity has had the custom of linking saints with specific flowers, which stems from the church's practice of decorating altars with blooming flowers when commemorating saints! In medieval Catholic monasteries, various flowers were cultivated almost like in a gardening center, and over time the church paired the 366 days' saints with different flowers, forming the so-called flower calendar. At that time most monasteries were located in Southern Europe, and Southern Europe has a Mediterranean climate, extremely suitable for growing flowers and plants. Polytrichum commune was chosen as the flower to honor Saint Eucharius. Saint Eucharius was a 12th-century French saint and the founder of the Order of the Holy Trinity. The mission of this order was to rescue Christians captured by Muslims during the Crusades.

Aquarius, born in winter, has an inner heart as cold as the winter cold, and is a mystic. They love all novel things. People born under the blessing of this flower are full of compassion and kind-hearted. They are very proactive and enterprising in love, one could say wholeheartedly, immersing even their soul in it.