My new avatar
By marguicha
@marguicha (223720)
Chile
May 5, 2010 11:39am CST
Hi friends,
I want to share in my new avatar one of the beautiful things I saw in my trip to the south of my country, Chile.
The south of Chile is a place full of lakes, volcanoes and native forests. Many tourists come to Chile just to see the wonders of nature in this part of the country.
The copihue is our national flower. It is a vine that climbs around old trees of hard wood. The climate here is quite damp: it rains a lot and even if it doesn´t rain it is always moist.
The copihues are mostly red although some of them are white too. Our national flower is the red one and it is a symbol of the blood shed to gain our independence.
While I was writing this post and sharing this picture I thought that it would be nice to know which are your national flowers (or regional flowers) and why were they chosen.
Hugs for everyone
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11 responses
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
6 May 10
Your country sounds so pretty, Marg. I know u are proud of it. OUR STATE FLOWER is the iris.I'm glad u saw so many pretty things. I'm glad u are home tho, i sure did miss seeing u on mylot.
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
6 May 10
forgot to tell u i like your avatar, beautiful flowers.
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
6 May 10
LOL, U sound about like me when it comes to technology. Good luck.
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@marguicha (223720)
• Chile
6 May 10
Hi jo, sweetie,
I used this avatar because I already had it in my computer. I´m trying to see if I can get the pictures from my trip downloaded. I just found the DVD I´m supposed to put before I insert the digital camera. But all of this is alien to me. I am trying but I don´t know if I´ll be able to get the pictures in the computer. At least, it seems they aren´t going to explode into pieces.
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@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
6 May 10
Australia’s floral emblem is the Golden Wattle. It is a bright yellow flower which grows up to 6 to 8 meters high, I believe. It is a flower that was cultivated in Australia and is quite pretty. I think it was depicted on a stamp many, many years ago.
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@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
9 May 10
I am not an expert gardner but I believe that the golden wattle is considered a small shrub or a small tree. Here is a link to more info:
http://www.anbg.gov.au/emblems/aust.emblem.html
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@marguicha (223720)
• Chile
9 May 10
It´s a very beautiful flower. How can it grow so high? Is it a tree?
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@marguicha (223720)
• Chile
22 May 12
It´s a beautiful flower. I checked the link and saw fields od blue bonnets. Awesome!
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@marguicha (223720)
• Chile
6 May 10
Hi dawn,
I have a couple of golden poppies in my garden too. They grow wild here but are extremelly picky if you want to plant them. The part of Chile where I live has similar climate to California so maybe that´s with we also have them. I couldn´t grow a copihue in my house though as the climate here is too dry.
Hug!
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@neildc (17239)
• Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines
6 May 10
hi margz. our national flower is "sampaguita" which is also known as Philippine Jasmine, Arabian jasmine, Pikake in Hawaii. see what i've got for using the mylot search box.
http://www.theflowerexpert.com/content/aboutflowers/tropicalflowers/sampaguita
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@marguicha (223720)
• Chile
9 May 10
Thanks for the answer and for the link, neil. I saw it and read it. Today and thanks to you, I learned something. This is why I like mylot so much. So even if it´s not the best paid site, it´s the site I enjoy the most.
The sampaguita is beautiful. My mother has in her garden a kind of jasmine that looks a lot like the sampaguita. But I think flowers are smaller. They are very aromativ though.
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@bhaskar015 (236)
• India
6 May 10
The national flower of India is Lotus.
lotus flower symbolises divinity,fertility,wealth,knowledge and enlightenment.
It is a symbol triumph.
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@marguicha (223720)
• Chile
9 May 10
It´s a beautiful flower and full of meanings!
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@cyrus123 (6363)
• United States
6 May 10
Your new avatar is beautiful! Chile sounds like a beautiful country, too! Each state in the USA has their own state flower and as far as I know, our state flower is still the Camelia. I'm in Alabama. I haven't heard if it has changed in years, though.
@marguicha (223720)
• Chile
9 May 10
The camelias are very beautiful. Our copihues have that waxy feeling as camelias do, but the petals are thicker.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
8 May 10
Hiya margi,
Those are really lovely flowers I love the colour and shape of them. Have not seen that kind of flower before something similar but not quite like those they are really nice.
One of our flowers is the Daffodil I think I could be wrong there as we are a United Kingdom, then there is the Thistle a purple coloured nettly flower for Scotland I think but I´m not really sure if it´s their national flower anymore also Shamrock which is kind of moss too for Ireland but they might have changed it also. But before they were the national flowers I think.
Whoah the Rose is the national English Flower in honour of Saint George and the Daffodil is for Wales a country I love very much. I was born right next door to it. The shamrock is still the Irish national emblem too at least it says so where I have just been reading.
@portisray (503)
• Philippines
6 May 10
Our national flower here in the Philippines is Sampaguita... We string the flower into leis and mostly sell them outside the churches and put it in saints in altars...
http://www.philippinecentral.com/images/sampaguita.jpg
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@Petranka74 (77)
• Bulgaria
6 May 10
Wow really great. You must have spent great. And I very much would like to visit the country of Chile, but not short for a long time so I can examine everything. Really great picture.
@marguicha (223720)
• Chile
6 May 10
Hi and welcome to mylot,
I had a great time there. I was a week at Pucón, a town near the Villarrica volcano and the Villarrica lake. It is not the first tiem I go there as it´s not that expensive for me to travel in my country. The place is beautiful and the natural beauties incredible. Many tourists that come to Chile skip the capital (where I live) and go immediatly to the south. There are volcanoes, lakes, hotsprings and native forests.
