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National Flowers by Country - UK

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(added few years ago!)

The National Flowers by Country


The United Kingdom
The British Isles is made up of two large and many smaller islands. These islands are divided into two countries – The United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.

But the United Kingdom alone is made up of :
1.   Scotland
2.   England
3.   Wales, and
4.   Northern Ireland

And each part of the United Kingdom has its own National Flower:

Scotland: Thistle,  England: Rose,  Wales: Daffodil,   Northern Ireland: Shamrock.

 

 

 

 

Scotland: Thistle 


 

 

 

 

England: Rose 

 

 

 

 

 

Wales: Daffodil 

  

 

 

 

 

Northern Ireland: Shamrock 

 

 Note: The rose was adopted as England's emblem around the time of the War of the Roses - civil wars (1455-1485) between the royal house of Lancaster (whose emblem was a red rose) and the royal house of York (whose emblem was a white rose). King Richard III and the Yorkists were defeated at Bosworth on 22 August 1485 by the future Henry VII. The two roses were combined to make the Tudor rose (a red rose with a white centre) by Henry VII when he married Elizabeth of York.

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