Rose
A fake rose on fire
The second-century AD Greek travel writer Pausanias associates the rose with the story of Adonis, and states that the rose is red because Aphrodite wounded herself on one of its thorns and stained the flower red with her blood.
The rose is the national flower of England, a usage dating back to the English civil wars of the fifteenth century (later called Wars of the Roses), in which a red rose represented the House of Lancaster, and a white rose represented the House of York.
