Flower Quiz

Camellia

In the cold season you open one big, bold flower, and your branches grow stronger year by year.

One big flowerCatch the eye with colorBuild on each year

The camellia is a flowering tree that blooms from winter into spring. The wild camellia native to Japan has thick red petals that stand out from afar among glossy, deep green leaves. Its flowers have almost no scent — it's a flower that catches the eye with color.

In the cold months when few flowers bloom, there aren't many insects around to carry pollen. Instead, birds like the Japanese white-eye come to sip the camellia's nectar and carry its pollen as they go. Each of your flowers comes with plenty of nectar, and you call out with a color anyone can spot at a glance.

Camellias are long-lived, and some old trees have been flowering for hundreds of years. You bloom each year on branches that look the same as before, on top of everything you've built up. When the flowers finish, they don't scatter their petals; the whole flower drops at once. Clear in shape both when you open and when you finish — but because of that, you can be reluctant when someone suggests changing a way of doing things you've kept up for years.

Strengths

You can pour all your energy into the one thing you've chosen
You can set out your ideas clearly, in a form anyone can understand
You can take years to go deeper into the same thing

Where you may stumble

Because you pour yourself into one thing, other tasks get less attention
Ideas you've stated clearly can land harder with people than you meant
It's hard to get on board with changing a long-held approach partway through

Sounds familiar, Camellia?

Your things are all in the same color, so they're easy to spot from across the room
When you find clothes you like, you keep buying the same cut for years
There's one potted plant in your room that you've been growing for years

Where you shine

Long-term commitments to one thing, presentations where the results are on show, and looking after a tradition that's been going for years.

Tips for “Camellia”

Before you throw yourself into one thing, clear just one other task first
After saying something clearly, add, “What do you think?”
Once a year, take a fresh look at your usual way of doing things

Matches

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Easy together

Rose — The Rose is another flowering tree that opens one big bloom at a time. The Camellia flowers in winter and the Rose in spring and fall, so even in the same garden you never compete for the spotlight. One shows itself to people far off, the other reaches those close by — and because you get things across differently, each of you reaches where the other can't.

Easy together

Sunflower — The Sunflower also opens one big flower in a clear, bright color. Winter camellia and summer sunflower may be seasons apart, but you bloom the same way — gathering your strength into one and showing it — so you're quick to understand each other. The Sunflower, which grows from seed every year, brings a fresh breeze to the Camellia.

May clash

Lily of the Valley — The Lily of the Valley lines up many small flowers facing downward and blooms quietly in the shade of its leaves. It's the opposite of the Camellia, with its single bold bloom, in both how it flowers and how it shows itself. The Camellia's way of saying things can sound strong to the Lily of the Valley, and the Lily of the Valley's way can sound roundabout to the Camellia.