The Gerbera Flower it’s Meaning & Symbolism
The gerbera daisy is native to south Africa and lush with bright colors and a happy beauty about it. These daisies are strong perennial plants with colors from deepest red to warm yellows, creams, white and peach shades. Not surprisingly the Victorian meaning of the gerbera daisy is happiness. The gerbera daisy seems to hold it’s rays open to the world radiating pure happiness. Who wouldn’t get a smile on their face when presented with a bouquet of these beauties?
What Does the Gerbera Daisy Mean?
Gerbera Daisies have several meanings, but all lean to happiness. 1The Egyptian meaning of gerberas is closeness to nature and devotion to the sun. The Celts believed that the gerbera would lessen the sorrows and stresses of everyday life. Any type of daisy equals truth or happiness of children. It is thought that if someone gives a gift of covered gerbera daisies that it symbolizes they are hiding something.
Etymological Meaning of the Gerbera Flower
The Latin name for the gerbera daisy is Gerbera jamesonii and is part of the large asteraceae family of flowers. 2These daisies were named after the German botanist and doctor Traugott Gerber. Also known as the Transvaal Daisy, a Scotsman, Robert Jameson found these beauties growing wild around the dug up gold mines he was in charge of in Transvaal, South Africa and Mr. Jameson is credited with also discovering these flowers.
Symbolism in the Gerbera Daisy
The symbolism of the gebera daisy is the simple beauty of a very happy life. Throughout history, the gerbera daisy has symbolized the innocent hearts of children, attributed to the white gerbera, and, happiness and gratefulness for the life you have been given. The meaning is more energized then contentedness or mellowness. It is happiness that bubbles, fizzes and pops with joyous surprises. There is an energetic playfulness to these flowers, which is evident in all their radiant colors. These are not flowers for regrets. These flowers are a celebration of life!
Gerbera Flower Color Meanings
Gerberas are available in rich reds, oranges, yellows peaches, creams and white and there a few distinct meanings including:
- The color meaning for orange is: sunshine of life
- Red means: unconscious in love or fully immersed in love
- White: is a symbol of purity or innocence, childlike
- Pink: admiration, adoration or high esteem
- Yellow: cheerfulness
Meaningful Botanical Characteristics of the Gerbera Flower
This is a herbaceous perennial from South Africa which thrives in zones 8-10. Gerbera daisies are well known for their ability to remove trichloroethylene, formaldehyde and benzene from the air. Gerber daisies are also excellent for helping you to sleep because they continue to release a continuous stream of fresh oxygen through the evening hours, while other flowers slow down their oxygen production, gerberas will lull you right to sleep.
One single flower sits atop each sturdy 12 to 18 inch hollow stem with a center disk of similar or contrasting colors. A white variety has a striking dark chocolate brown center. 4)Breeding for color variations and forms began in the late 1800’s and from that point, there was no going back.
Gerbera Flower Interesting Facts
- Gerbera jamesonii is named after two different people from two different centuries: botanist and German doctor Traugott Gerber from the 18th century and Robert Jameson a 19th century botanist who formed the Moodies Gold Mining and Exploration company. On one of his journeys he ended up in South Africa on a discovery trip and found the gerbera daisy near a excavated gold mine.
- Out of the thousands of flowers of the world, gerberas are in the top five!
- Gerberas always turn towards the sun. Set up a camera for time lapse photography and watch in amazement as they turn to face the sun.
- Is the birth flower for the month of April
Offer the Gerbera Flower on These Occasions
The gerbera would be a great gift for someone embarking on a major change in their life. A bouquet of peach, pink and red gerberas would energize them through the beginning stages of their adventure. A soft pink gerbera would be a perfect gift to welcome a new baby.
The Gerbera Flower’s Message Is
Let happiness be your compass!
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Be like the Gerbera Cynthia and follow the sun. Always follow the sun ~
Thank you so much for the article. Great website, good job. Today I was gifted a bunch of pink Gerbera from a nice boy. I was (and am) at work then. Out of the blue came this call where a man says Mam there are flowers which would be delivered to you shortly. I was like What!? Whoa. In a second I knew who the sender was. Being not a very romantic kind of person, and the sender being still in the “crush” stage, I was more confused and embarrassed than happy, especially because I had to bring it back to my work station among prying colleagues. Ooohs, aahs, and the questions followed from colleagues. They loved the gesture..whereas..well..I was still being Me.. Having got to see harsh realities very early in life I fell in love with completely platonic love, art and reality based films, substantial people with depth, and such. So somehow I could never understand the emotion between lovers gifting flowers to each other. So soon I went back to work. With flowers still hanging like climbers at the back of my mind. After completing a bit of work, my mind went back to the flowers…I googled Gerbera … found that it comes from the daisy family! Long back among casual talks we had found that we both love daisies.. I looked for the meaning of Gerbera (remember I’m apparently a very meaningful person :-P). Sun and happiness! Doesn’t my personality totally reflect that! The ‘simling’ face of a gerbera, and I being known as a person who is always smiling bright and gay! and it all started making sense now.. and for the first time after that I blushed! Happily. I don’t know where it goes from here but I’m just loving and living the moment.. Thank you for helping me achieve that… Love and regards, Cynthia