Picking up with the next two hair flowers from where I left off in the All Products tab (Truth and Truth 2), we come to the Zinnia, the flower for which the general meaning is thoughtfulness and friendship.
"The meaning of zinnia is deeper than most of the flowers blooming in the mid summer season. The flower zinnia, is a symbol of lasting love, goodness, thoughts of an absent friend, constancy and daily remembrance of good memories. The state flower of Indiana is zinnia. The meaning of the flower is different depending on its color. A yellow colored zinnia is a symbol of daily remembrance, the white zinnia represents goodness, the scarlet zinnia represents constancy, magenta zinnia is a symbol of lasting love and affection, while a mixed colored zinnia means thinking of an absent friend. The first ever flowers were discovered in early 1500s in the wilderness of Mexico. These zinnias were very unpleasant, dull and unappealing. Aztec, the Mexican emperor during the 1500s named them and it meant "eyesore". Today, the common name of zinnia is garden Cinderella, which implies the level of transformation that the flower went through." (Excerpt from the web--buzzle article.)
Although there are orange zinnias, I could not find the symbolic meaning for them; however, the general meaning of a zinnia, which I stated at the beginning of this post, is thoughtfulness and friendship. The color orange means vitality or endurance and stimulates enthusiasm and creativity. Those who are usually drawn to this color are very thoughtful and sincere people, as well as quite social. Orange also is a combination of the energy that red stimulates, and the color yellow's effect of happiness, as well as increases self-esteem! From all the other symbolic meanings I have read, I am led to believe that the orange zinnia would symbolize thoughtfulness and endurance.
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