Jewish flower traditions
Greenery at Shavuot, the flowers of the land and the Song of Songs.
Common rueRuta graveolens
A strong-scented Mediterranean herb with blue-green leaves and yellow flowers
🇱🇹 Lithuania and 8 more · Wildflower
ApricotPrunus armeniaca
A spring-flowering fruit tree with white or pink blossoms and orange-yellow fruit
🇦🇲 Armenia and 7 more · Flowering tree
LeekAllium ampeloprasum
A mild-flavoured onion relative and Welsh emblem with edible leaf sheaths
🇪🇬 Egypt and 7 more · Herb or useful flower
SnowbellStyrax
A genus of shrubs and small trees with drooping white flowers
🇪🇬 Egypt and 3 more · Flowering shrub
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Apricot: Fir0002, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Common rue: Kurt Stüber [1], CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Leek: WikiLucas00, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Snowbell: Unknown author, Public domain, source