page_title: Hyacinth (plant)
section_title: Culture
hierarchical_section_title: Hyacinth (plant) / Culture
caption_attribution_description: English: Sonbol is a flower of Nowruz, in english it is called "Hyacinth."
context_page_description: Hyacinthus is a small genus of bulbous, spring-blooming perennial, fragrant flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae. These are commonly called hyacinths. The genus is native to the eastern Mediterranean.
  Several species of Brodiaea, Scilla, and other plants that were formerly classified in the lily family and have flower clusters borne along the stalk also have common names with the word "hyacinth" in them. Hyacinths should also not be confused with the genus Muscari, which are commonly known as grape hyacinths.
context_section_description: Hyacinths are often associated with spring and rebirth. The hyacinth flower is used in the Haft-Seen table setting for the Persian New Year celebration, Nowruz, held at the Spring Equinox. The Persian word for hyacinth is سنبل (sonbol).
  The hyacinth appears in the first section of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land during a conversation between the narrator and the "hyacinth girl" that takes place in the spring.
  “You gave me hyacinths first a year ago;
  
  “They called me the hyacinth girl.”
  
  —Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden,
  
  Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not
  
  Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither
  
  Living nor dead, and I knew nothing,
  
  Looking into the heart of light, the silence.
  In Roman Catholic tradition, the hyacinth represents prudence, constancy, desire of heaven and peace of mind; and is derived from the story of Hyacinthus, upon whose death the flower sprang forth.
caption: Nowruz Sonbol (Hyacinth)
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