Cyclamen: Flower Meaning and Planting History Explained

I. Cyclamen Flower Meaning

Cyclamen has a rich fragrance, graceful leaves, distinctive flowers and brilliant colors, and is grown in many countries. Opinions on the flower meaning of cyclamen also vary greatly and are hard to unify.

Flower meaning one: welcoming honored guests, hospitality.

Based on its name, cyclamen carries the meaning of immortal guests gracefully arriving, and a cyclamen in full bloom is highly favored by people as a premium winter potted flower for decorating living rooms, desks, shops, restaurants and other public places. In Europe and America it is also an important flower for giving to relatives and friends at Christmas and for expressing good wishes. It is suitable for potted display and can be placed indoors, especially in homes on sunny plant stands and desks. Because of its beautiful and distinctive plant shape, abundant blooms and brilliant colors, as well as varieties with fragrance, it is deeply favored by people. The flower meaning of cyclamen: welcoming honored guests, so it is suitable for placing in the living room.

Flower meaning two: introversion.

Cyclamen is the birthday flower of February 7, and its flower meaning is introversion. Cyclamen was mostly wild before, and only now is it cultivated in greenhouses. Perhaps because of this, although it is beautiful, its vitality is somewhat fragile. Therefore the flower meaning of cyclamen is - introversion. People born under the blessing of this flower are shy and timid. Because they do not talk much, sometimes even people with very kind hearts are misunderstood. If they are inexplicably misunderstood by someone they love, the loss can be great. Sometimes it may be worth overcoming your introversion and showing a cheerful, witty side!

Flower meaning three: beauty, jealousy, proving with a delicate and silent posture the elegance of being loved.

Catholicism regards cyclamen as the heart's blood of the Virgin Mary fallen on the ground (or her heart bleeding in the mortal world), and Japanese people regard this flower as the sacred flower of love.

Flower meaning four: grace.

Cyclamen leaves have white markings, with purplish red undersides, and the flowers come in red, white, purple, orange, and red edges with white centers, with deeply mottled beautiful buds, and some flowers are fragrant. Placing a pot of cyclamen in the living room or on a desk immediately makes the whole room shine and adds endless pleasure. Many people have also given it the meaning of grace.

II. Cyclamen Planting History

When it was first discovered in Greece, Algeria in North Africa, and Tunisia, it was found in the books and craft works of monks, and was also often seen around monasteries or cemeteries, so the flower meaning of cyclamen also carries the sense of "steadfast and unchanging love."

It was introduced to Europe in the 16th century and planted in the garden of Queen Elizabeth I of England, abandoned in the 18th century, and as Romanticism rose in the 19th century, this flower became popular again.

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