In England Wales, and Northern Ireland remembrance day poppies are mostly paper representatives of the flat Earl Haig attributed design, a flat two petal poppy with a leaf made in Richmond Surrey. (The Car Poppy sold by the Royal British Legion has no leaf). In Scotland remembrance day poppies have four petals and no design has a leaf, they are made by poppyscotland. Countries around the world have other designs. The only significance of the leaf, or no leaf poppy is that it may give a clue to the country where the poppy was, or was not, manufactured. There are no rules governing how, or where to wear a poppy, nor the angle of the leaf if present.
The green leaf on the poppy does not represent anything independently from the poppy itself. The poppy is used as a memorial flower for veterans.
The green leaf on the poppy does not represent anything independently from the poppy itself. The poppy is used as a memorial flower for veterans.
"In Flander's Fields", the poppy represents the war.
it represents grief of deaths.
In the runup to Rembrance Day, 11th November, we wear poppies to represent the fact that after World War One, the only thing that grew in the war fields was poppies.
In the model, colored and plain sesame seeds can represent different types of quarks and antiquarks, while poppy seeds can represent gluons that mediate the strong force interaction between quarks within a proton or neutron.
Poppies were the flowers universally planted in so many European graveyards and military cemeteries after the First World War ( Great War ). The black centre would represent the black tiny seeds of the Poppy flower. Thus the Poppy flower became symbolic of the many war dead we need to remember and reflect on, on Remembrance Day. Read more >> Options >> http://www.answers.com?initiator=FFANS http://www.answers.com/main/images/hook-bottomL.gif); width: 70px; height: 29px; margin-left: 25px; position: relative; top: -15px">
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Because Mekon, a man loved by the goddess Demeter was metamorphosed into a poppy flower.
On the Poppy the red stands for blood , the Green stands for the earth they fight on and the black stands for death.
Poppies are used to celebrate November 11th. Poppy's favorite flowers were poppies. The red poppies popped against the green field. The poppies were wild flowers.
The poppy with the green center is typically worn to commemorate the Irish who served in the armed forces, while the poppy with the black center is worn to remember the African and Caribbean communities who contributed to the war efforts. Both are worn during Remembrance Day to honor those who sacrificed their lives in conflicts.