Birth Flowers

We all know about birthstones.  But for all, you trivia fans, do you know about birth flowers?  There is a flower assigned to each month, and supposedly individuals inherit the characteristics of the flower assigned to their birth month.  The birth month flowers and characteristics associated with them are as follows. 

       
If you're thinking the list of birth flowers may be something put together by florists to sell flowers, you might be right.  The concept of birth flowers appears simply to have developed from the practice of gifting flowers to celebrate a birth.  The list of birth month flowers also varies slightly from one floral company to another.  For example, some florist websites list the December flower as Poinsettia, while others list Holly.  But who doesn't love receiving flowers for any reason? 

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