Flowers of September 30th

There are three main flowers associated with September 30th. They are Monstera, Zephyr flower and Japanese Anemone. The latter, Japanese Anemone, is pictured in this post. As you can see, it looks quite like cosmos flowers. Some varieties of cosmos are called "anemone-flowered" due to the shape of their petals, which can lead to confusion, but cosmos are in the daisy family not the anemone family. 

Japanese Anemone are called "shumeikiku" in Japanese. They are said to represent "fading love" and "patience". Overall, anemone flowers are associated with "suffering in love", due to a sad legend around the anemone flower. The "kiku" in "shumeikiku" is chrysanthemum as the Japanese anemone resembles the chrysanthemum. Japanese anemone is native to China and came to Japan in ancient times and has become naturalized in many places. 

Japanese Anemone is the flower of not only September 30th, but September 14th, October 8th and October 15th too. It flowers in autumn, generally between September and November. Do you know the flowers associated with your birth date? Do you ever get your birth flower on your birthday?