This is your host Rinell travelling here in this beautiful islands of Fiji and will discuss to you the legend of Tagimoucia.
Long ago, in the high rain forests of Fiji's "Garden Island" of Taveuni, a volcanic crater became dormant and over the eons filled with rain water to become what is known today as Lake Tagimoucia. It is here, and nowhere else on earth, that the beautiful flower that shares the name Tagimoucia is found and is revered as the national flower of Fiji.
This rarest of blooms is a member of the seventh largest family of flowering plants in the world and like many things in nature, that are unique to the area, there is a local legend about this flower's origins.
According to one Fijian story this is no flower, but the tears of a Princess, who was about to be forced by her father to marry her predestined husband. However, she was in love with another man and in despair, sher ran into the forest and wandered for many hours before she came to the banks of a beautiful lake. A search party sent by her father found her crying in her sleep on a bed of green vines. As her tears fell onto the plant they turned from salt to blood red blossoms. When she awoke, her father had taken pity on her and allowed the young couple to marry.
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