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Lâle

She represented pious modesty when she bowed her head in full bloom, and her name, Turkish, spelled the letters of Allah in Arabic script. Travelers and ambassadors from Europe noticed that the Turkish had a special regard for her amongst all floral families. Died in the hands of the head gardener, bostanci-basha, who brought the cut flower to adorn the palace interior along with the executed whom he strangled the same morning, before the sultan.

Image source: https://mvslim.com/the-flowery-journey-of-tulips-from-the-ottoman-empire-to-europe/