A gajra is a flower which women in India wear during festive occasions, weddings or as part of everyday traditional attire. They are made usually of varies types of jasmine flowers but rose , crossandra and barleria are also widely used in gajras . It can be worn both on the bun and with the braid coiling. Women in South Asia usually wear them with traditional attire...#getflowersdaily
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Jasmine kajra for its fragrance is worn by women of South India, as a symbol of tradition and culture. Besides the beauty and traditional appeal, these flowers are worn by women for all auspicious functions. Women into special traditional dance form such as Bharatanatyam also use jasmine kajra for hair decoration.
Lakshmi: She is iconic for all that is auspicious and pure in your home. Goddess of wealth and prosperity accepts a wide range of flowers. Goddess Lakshmi is shown sitting on a lotus and thus that has to be her favorite flower. But in the absence of roses, any kind of red flowers, like red jasmine, please the goddess greatly. As she is a symbol of fertility and marital bliss, she must never be offered white flowers. White is the color of widowhood in Hinduism and red is the color of 'suhagan' (married woman). Vermilion or sindoor that is applied by all married Hindu women is also red.
Nelumbo(lotus) is a genus of aquatic plants with large, showy flowers. Members are commonly called lotus, though "lotus" is a name also applied to various other plants and plant groups, including the unrelated genus Lotus. Members outwardly resemble those in the family Nymphaeaceae ("water lilies"), but Nelumbo is actually very distant to Nymphaeaceae. "Nelumbo" is derived from the Sinhalese word Sinhalese: neḷum, the name for the lotus Nelumbo nucifera.
Apple rose flowers are again widely used in south Indian homes during daily Pooja offerings. Besides these are also popular in temples and homes for worship of deities especially goddess deities. These are also used in auspicious functions like navagraha homam, house warming ceremonies and also serve as beauty decorative for girls on their hair.