Results for "offering"
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- Buddhist flower offerings Tradition
- Loy Krathong and floating flower offerings Tradition
- Fallas flower offering Flower day
- Offering of Flowers to the Virgin of the Pillar Flower day
- Offering Glossary
Decoration
Garland
A string or braid of flowers, leaves, or other materials for decoration or ceremony
🇮🇳 India and 3 more · Garland or wreath
Decoration
Pushpanjaliपुष्पाञ्जलि
A flower offering in Hindu worship and classical dance
Offering or rite
Decoration
Day of the DeadDía de (los) Muertos
Mexico’s festival of remembrance with altars, marigolds, and sugar skulls
🇲🇽 Mexico · Custom, November
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Gosekku五節句
Five seasonal festivals once held at the Japanese imperial court
🇯🇵 Japan · Custom
Place
Tropical Botanical Garden and Research Institute
A major botanical garden and research centre in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
Thiruvananthapuram, 🇮🇳 India · Botanical garden
Place
China National Botanical Garden国家植物园
A vast botanical garden in Beijing with research, rare plants, and public displays
Beijing, 🇨🇳 China · Botanical garden
Place
Rhododendron-Park Bremen
A vast park in Bremen with the world’s largest rhododendron and azalea collection
Bremen, 🇩🇪 Germany · Botanical garden
Place
Jardin des Plantes, ToulouseJardin des plantes de Toulouse
A historic botanical garden and city park in central Toulouse
Toulouse, 🇫🇷 France · Botanical garden
Decoration
Qingming Festival清明节
The Chinese spring festival for honoring ancestors with tomb sweeping and offerings
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Custom, April
Decoration
Harvest festival
A yearly celebration marking the end of the harvest with feasts and decorations
🇮🇳 India and 3 more · Custom, Jan to Oct
Place
Linnaean GardenLinnéträdgården
Sweden’s oldest university botanical garden, restored to its 18th-century form
Uppsala, 🇸🇪 Sweden · Botanical garden
Place
Chanticleer Garden
A 48-acre public garden on a historic estate near Philadelphia
Wayne, 🇺🇸 United States · Botanical garden, Apr to Oct
Place
Reykjavík Botanic GardenGrasagarður Reykjavíkur
A public garden in Reykjavík with over 5,000 plant species and rich birdlife
Reykjavík, 🇮🇸 Iceland · Botanical garden
Place
Matsumae松前町
A historic town in southern Hokkaido famed for its castle and cherry blossoms
Matsumae, 🇯🇵 Japan · Flower garden
Place
Oslo Botanical GardenBotanisk hage
Norway’s oldest botanical garden, home to 7,500 plant species in Oslo
Oslo, 🇳🇴 Norway · Botanical garden
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Ikebana華道
The Japanese art of arranging flowers with form and meaning
🇯🇵 Japan · Arrangement
Place
TrebahLowarth Treverybow
A 26-acre sub-tropical garden above the Helford River in Cornwall
Mawnan, 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Botanical garden
Decoration
Rikka立花
A formal Japanese ikebana style with upright, symbolic floral arrangements
Arrangement
Decoration
Pūjā in Buddhism𑀧𑀽𑀚𑀸
A ritual offering and devotional act in Buddhist practice
🇮🇳 India and 3 more · Offering or rite
Decoration
Phuang malaiพวงมาลัย
Thai floral garlands made for offerings, gifts, and ceremonies
🇹🇭 Thailand · Garland or wreath
Decoration
Pujaपूजा
The Hindu ritual of offering flowers, light, and food in worship
🇮🇳 India and 2 more · Offering or rite
Decoration
Loy Krathongลอยกระทง
The Thai festival of floating candle-lit baskets on water
🇹🇭 Thailand and 7 more · Custom, November
Decoration
Phool Walon Ki Sair
Delhi’s annual flower procession celebrating unity after the monsoon
🇮🇳 India · Custom, September
Decoration
Vesak
The Buddhist festival marking the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment, and passing
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka and 7 more · Custom, Apr to Jun
Decoration
Buddha's Birthday佛诞
A festival marking the birth of Gautama Buddha, celebrated across Asia in spring
🇮🇳 India and 3 more · Custom, Apr to May
Decoration
Ofrenda
A home altar with offerings for Día de los Muertos in Mexico
🇲🇽 Mexico · Offering or rite, November
Sacred lotusNelumbo nucifera
The pink aquatic flower sacred in Asia and grown for food, worship and beauty
🇮🇳 India and 7 more · Water flower
Plumeria
Fragrant tropical tree with waxy, five-petaled flowers in many colours
🇲🇽 Mexico and 6 more · Flowering tree
Aztec marigoldTagetes erecta
The golden-yellow flower of Mexican altars and Day of the Dead offerings
🇲🇽 Mexico and 6 more · Wildflower
Arabian jasmineJasminum sambac
A small white jasmine with a strong, sweet scent, treasured in Asia for garlands and ceremonies
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Flowering shrub
BrahmakamalSaussurea obvallata
A Himalayan alpine flower with papery bracts, sacred in Indian hill temples
🇮🇳 India and 4 more · Wildflower
White Himalayan lilyLilium polyphyllum
A rare white or pink lily from the high Himalayas, used in temple offerings
🇮🇳 India and 3 more · Wildflower
Pygmy waterlilyNymphaea tetragona
A small white waterlily found in calm waters across the northern hemisphere
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Wildflower
Calotropis
A wild and weedy flowering plant with milky sap and fragrant blooms
🇮🇳 India and 1 more · Wildflower
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Garland: No machine-readable author provided. Piotrus assumed (based on copyrig, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Pushpanjali: Yosarian, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Day of the Dead: RubeHM, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Gosekku: Kakizaki Hakyo, Public domain, source
- Tropical Botanical Garden and Research Institute: No machine-readable author provided. Shyamal assumed (based on copyrig, CC BY 2.5, source
- China National Botanical Garden: Daderot, Public domain, source
- Rhododendron-Park Bremen: -- Xocolatl 00:35, 13 January 2008 (UTC), Public domain, source
- Plumeria: Renesis, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Ikebana: Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Aztec marigold: HitroMilanese, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Trebah: Gordon Joly, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Rikka: Gryffindor, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Pūjā in Buddhism: Luca Galuzzi ( Lucag ), CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Pygmy waterlily: Hooker, William; Salisbury, R. A.; Shury, D. N., Public domain, source
- Calotropis: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, source
- Phuang malai: Deror Avi, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Arabian jasmine: Taken by Fanghong, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Puja: Sakkhar21, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Loy Krathong: John Shedrick, CC BY 2.0, source
- Phool Walon Ki Sair: Nvvchar, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Vesak: ผู้สร้างสรรค์ผลงาน/ส่งข้อมูลเก็บในคลังข้อมูลเสรีวิกิมีเดียคอมมอนส์ - เ, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Buddha's Birthday: User: (WT-shared) Manoj nav at wts wikivoyage, Public domain, source
- Sacred lotus: T.Voekler, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Ofrenda: Eneas de Troya, CC BY 2.0, source
- Jardin des Plantes, Toulouse: Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Qingming Festival: Jacklee ., CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Harvest festival: High Contrast, CC BY 3.0 de, source
- Linnaean Garden: ArildV, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Chanticleer Garden: Photo by and (c)2007 Derek Ramsey ( Ram-Man ). Co-attribution must be, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Reykjavík Botanic Garden: Szilas, Public domain, source
- Matsumae: Kodama Teiryo, Public domain, source
- Brahmakamal: Schwiki, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Oslo Botanical Garden: Helge Høifødt, CC BY-SA 3.0, source