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Mother's Day in Thailand
Thai children kneel to give their mothers a garland of white jasmine.
What happens
Thailand keeps Mother's Day on 12 August, the birthday of Queen Sirikit, the Queen Mother. The flower of the day is white jasmine, dok mali. Its colour stands for the purity of a mother's love, and its scent lasts long after the flower is picked. At school ceremonies in the days before, mothers sit in a row of chairs while their children kneel in front of them and offer a small jasmine garland. Many people also wear light blue, the colour linked with the Queen Mother's day of birth.
The flowers
More flowers and customs of Mother's Day in Thailand
CarnationDianthus caryophyllus
A fragrant flower with ruffled petals, grown worldwide for decoration and meaning
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Eastern redbudCercis canadensis
A North American tree with magenta-pink spring flowers and heart-shaped leaves
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Decoration
Floristry
The craft and trade of arranging and selling flowers
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Place
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The world’s largest flower auction hall in the Netherlands
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Original text by the Phool desk, written with AI assistance. Background: "Mother's Day" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from family to family and place to place. If we have something wrong, tell us.
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Eastern redbud: Greg Hume, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Dianthus: Darkone ( talk · contribs ), CC BY-SA 1.0, source
- Floristry: Joachimj, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Phuang malai: Deror Avi, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Arabian jasmine: Taken by Fanghong, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Mother's Day: Dave Parker, CC BY 2.0, source
- Aalsmeer Flower Auction: No machine-readable author provided. Miriam8~commonswiki assumed (base, Public domain, source