Countries and their stereotypical flowers

Challenge #40 in the Just Because series. Hosted by AussieJo.

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The Netherlands is known for their tulips, Australian is known for its Waratah. Show me a photo of a flower that is stereotypically from a country. Include in the description the name of the flower and what country it is known for.

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Announced:

Monday, 1st August, 2011 (GMT)

Submissions:

Monday, 8th August, 2011 – Sunday, 14th August, 2011 (GMT)

Voting:

Monday, 15th August, 2011 – Sunday, 21st August, 2011 (GMT)

Processing rules:

creativity is encouraged

Capture date rules:

No restrictions.

Additional rules:

subject has to be a flower.
Check out the "challenge Comments" section at the bottom of the thumbnails to see if any other issues have been raised, or to leave a qualifying question
State the name of the flower and the country in the description or title or it will be disqualified

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Maximum number of entries in challenge:

100

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Total comments: 12

Great entries and wonderful information. Fascinating, enjoyable and well done.

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Since the most of the entrants attached brief description, I found this challenge educational and very enjoyable. Congratulation AussieJo

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I'm finding it educationally enjoyable in a way other challenges I have run in the past haven't impacted me. If anyone should have any ideas of photo challenge themes along the lines of countries and their stereotypical ____ I would love to hear your ideas in a comment sent direct to me.

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Birds?

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I've been surprised not to see any dogwoods or magnolias from American entrants, which IMO are more typically American than roses. :-)

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Never new dogwoods were considered an American flower. Unfortunately, dogwood flowering occurs mainly in March & April in our area and this year we had an exceptionally rainy spring. Not very good for photos. My favorite is the Pink American Dogwood. I have a nice shot of Japanese Dogwood, but that wouldn't really be right for this challenge (it is growing in America!) :-)

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With all due respect and the shot is a good one, the Sunflower is not stereotypical of Italy.
The national flower of Italy is a lily white lily or poppy. Are you going to insure people just aren't just uploading nice shots of flowers?
This is actually one of the best challenges I have seen. Very interesting and wonderful to see other countries typical flowers!
http://www.theflowerexpert.com/content/flowerbusiness/flowergrowersandsellers/national-native-popular-flowers-of-italy

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Thanks for your support of the challenge. My aim is to use these challenges to give us all a bit of an education about how things are different and unique in different parts of the world and at the same time there are so many similarities. Unfortunately I am not a gardener so I don't just know whether someone is submitting a flower that is stereotypical of the country they nominate, or whether they are just submiting their favourite flower snapshot.
Hopefully people will read this section before submitting or voting so that they get the idea behind the challenge.

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Are you then saying that this Iris does not qualify as a Dutch Tulip variety and I should disqualify it?

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This bearded iris is found in many parts of Europe and Asia. The Dutch Iris grows from a bulb, not a rhizome, and is a much stiffer, more robust flower. :-)

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I'll confess in advance that I am not a gardener, so I wont know if flowers are derived from specific countries or not - so I encourage you to please stick to the flowers that are internationally known for being from that country. Apparently The Netherlands does grow what is known as a Dutch Iris, but I have already recieved complaints that this type of flower is not what the Dutch are known for. I don't want to spark a debate, I just ask you to stick to the obvious flowers of a country.

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Only Country? - or can it be city, state or a any certain area within a county?
Thanks!

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