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Flower of Paradise

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The Ipomœa or Camalaʹta, called by Sir W Jones “Love’s creeper.” It symbolises that mythological plant which fulfils all desire.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Florin
Florisando
Florisel of Nicea
Florismart
Florizel
Flotsam and Jetson
Flower Games
Flower Sermon
Flower of Chivalry
Flower of Kings
Flower of Paradise
Flower of the Levant
Flowers and Trees
Flowers and Trees with Christian Traditions
Flowérs at Funerals
Flowered Robes
Flowing Philosophers
Fluellen
Fluke
Flummery
Flummux (To)