Exhibition Dedicated to Natalie's Ramonda at Jevremovac Botanical Garden in Belgrade

In Britain, red poppy flowers are worn on lapels in memory of the victims of the Great War, in France, they wear brown knapweed, and in Serbia, the symbol of the truce is Natalie’s ramonda. Many also call it the phoenix plant, and people of Belgrade have the opportunity to see living examples of three flowers, Natalie’s, Serbian and Pyrenean ramondas, at the Jevremovac Botanical Garden until November 15.

Opening the exhibition “Days of Ramondas, the Resurrected Jewels of the Balkan Peninsula”, Dr Ljubisa Stanisavljevic, the dean of the Faculty of Biology, said that history and botany had great importance both for the state and for said higher education institution.

– As a symbol of this holiday, Natalie’s ramonda serves as a memory of the greatest sacrifice of both the civilian and the military casualties that Serbia suffered during the First World War. The symbolism of Natalie’s ramonda is contained in the fact that the plant has risen from the ashes like the phoenix, just like, even with all the losses, the Serbian army ended up victorious in the Great War – said professor Stanisavljevic.

Botanička bašta Jevremovac Beograd

Biološki fakultet Beograd

Ljubiša Stanisavljević

Great War

First World War

red poppy

brown knapweed

Natalie s ramonda

Serbian ramonda

Pyrenean ramonda

truce symbol

phoenix plant

phoenix flower

Days of Ramondas the Resurrected Jewels of the Balkan Peninsula