These are very popular florist flowers. The carnations bloom can have up to 40 petals in a variety of stripped, multicolored, or solid patterns. Different colors of the carnation flower have different meanings. They symbolize beauty and pride.

Pink Carnations symbolize the love of a mother or a woman; red carnations symbolize love, admiration and pride; stripped carnations are used to convey a message of refusal; purple carnations symbolize capriciousness while white carnations are a symbol of pure love and innocence.