Flower's story : Narcissus, a mad man that becomes a flower emblematic of spring

The word narcissus comes from greek mythologie. Narcissus was a beautiful youg man but he was proud, very proud. Nobody was good enough to be loved by him. He rejected every body, including the nymp Echo.
But some day as he was drinking from a spring, he saw a magnificent young man and fell in love with him. He was so smitten with him that he wanted to kiss him and leant to reach, leant, leant so much that he fell in the water and disappeared in it.

Where he was, white flowers grew. They were given his name.

The flowering of narcissus means spring is there, especiacilly the daffodil variety.

Now narcissus exist in many colour, white, yellow, orange and all possible mixtures of them.

In our culture, narcissus is a symbol of vanity. But in China, it is a symbol of luck and richess.

Spring flowers colorings with narcissus.