[LottiFurmann]

Yes, karthikaipoo is very nice but very toxic. There are many countries in the world have toxic plants as their national flower for various symbolic and cultural reasons. The tulip also a toxic plant, it is the national flower of Holland, Hungary and, Turkey. Even Iris, the National flower of France and Shamrock, the national flowers of Ireland are also toxic plants. Kartigaipoo has many medicinal properties.

Karthigaipoo has a symbolic importance to Eelam Tamils. It has the spectrum of colors contained in the Tamil Eelam national flag and which in November, the month of Heroes day celebrations, ubiquitously spreads, sprouts new shoots and blooms throughout the NorthEast.

"Ancient Tamil kings each had a favorite flower which he adopted as his own. For the Chola's it was the ficus glomarata ("Aththipoo"), the Chera's, the Palmyrah flower, the Pandyas, the Margosa flower, which in each case was the Kingdom's flower. In "Tamil Civilization and Culture," Thadchinamoorthy mentions that these kings wore only garlands made of each one's flower on his way to war.

He further mentions that smaller sovereigns also had their own emblematic flower garlands and that the more valiant of the Tamil chieftains, Aai Andiran, wore mastwood flower garlands of Karnthal, the traditional Tamil name for Karthigai".