Birth flower for December 11
White camellia
Meaning: perfect loveliness
Coco Chanel adored the white camellia, a flower with no scent that holds its shape, and made it the house emblem on everything from brooches to handbags. In The Lady of the Camellias, the heroine usually wears white camellias. A bloom like this, with petals stacked in neat rows right to the center and no stamens showing, is called a formal double.