Lilac Flieder

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Lilac (Flieder)

***** Location: Germany, Europa
***** Season: Spring
***** Category: Plant

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Explanation

Flieder (lilac)
Syringa




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Syringa (Lilac)
is a genus of about 20–25 species of flowering plants in the olive family (Oleaceae). Although considered to be a tree, it is classified as a bush, native to eastern Europe and western Asia.

Lilacs are popular shrubs in parks and gardens throughout the temperate zone.

The genus name Syringa is derived from syrinx meaning a hollow tube or pipe, and refers to the broad pith in the shoots in some species, easily hollowed out to make reed pipes and flutes in early history.

A pale purple colour is generally known as lilac after the flower.

Symbolism
Lilacs symbolize love.
In Greece, Lebanon, and Cyprus, the lilac is strongly associated with Eastertime because it flowers around that time; it is consequently called paschalia.

Syringa vulgaris is the state flower of New Hampshire, because it "is symbolic of that hardy character of the men and women of the Granite State".

"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"
is a poem written by Walt Whitman as an elegy to Abraham Lincoln.

Numerous locations around North America hold yearly Lilac Festivals, the longest-running of which is the one in Rochester, New York.
©　More in the WIKIPEDIA !


Der Gemeine Flieder (Syringa vulgaris)
©　More in the German WIKIPEDIA !


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Worldwide use

Japan

kigo for late spring

rairakku ライラック　（らいらっく）lilac
rira no hana リラの花（りらのはな）
murasaki hoshidoi 紫丁香花（むらさきはしどい） violet Hashidoi



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Things found on the way


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HAIKU




A four-fold lilac
blossom on unfurled buds -
promises to keep

Michael R. Collings
Happy Haiku Forum 2007


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Lilacs damp with dew,
Beautiful fragrance scents breeze
and brings memories.

L. Lee Scott, 2007
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/242626/lilac_haiku.html


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Haiga by Alex Serban
Romania, April 2010


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leading the blind
to a bench ...
purple lilac


white lilac
standing alone by the road
an old man lifts his hat

Heike Gewi
Kigo Hotline April 2010


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***** Plants of Spring ... SAIJIKI

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beside the sparrow
only the fragrance
of a lilac blossom

- Shared by Sandi Pray -
Joys of Japan, 2012


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