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A variety of roses grow in Lyithdonea.
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Real world influences:
- the rose is linked to love, beauty, purity and passion
- roses can also represent pain, suffering and death.
- These less romantic representations reappear in European and Near Eastern folklore as a result of Rome’s expanding empire and influence over its populace. Throughout ancient Christendom, the red rose is often used to symbolize the blood and agony of the crucifixion of Jesus; the five petals, representing his five wounds. In England, the rosarian prunes red roses carefully, for if the petals fall from a red rose as it is being cut, bad luck will follow. In Italy, fully open roses are not given as a gift because death will befall a relative of the recipient.
- It is also known as “acicularis”, derived from the Latin word “acidula” which translates to “needle-like prickly”