Flowers and plants in tarot quiz: roses, laurel, ivy
A white rose on a banner, an apple tree with a serpent, a laurel wreath and an olive branch: find which cards grow these plants and what they say.
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- ≈ 2 min
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What do flowers and plants mean in tarot?
This quiz checks whether you remember the flowers, wreaths, trees and fruit on the Tayna deck and understand what they mean. You will match a card to its plant, pick the right reading and take apart a couple of common misconceptions. Every detail comes from the descriptions of our own artwork.
Plants in tarot speak about growth. Where something blooms or ripens, the card is talking about life that keeps going on its own as long as it is cared for. A flower shows a feeling or an intention, a wreath shows recognition or a finished circle, a tree shows support and time, and fruit shows the result of work.
How do you read the rose, the lily and the laurel?
A rose on these cards is rarely just about romance. Red ones usually speak of desire and eager striving, white ones of a clean intention. That is why a white rose fits both the young traveller's hand and the banner of Death's rider: in each case it marks an honest, unclouded beginning.
The lily almost always stands beside roses or doves and stresses purity. Laurel is the plant of victory: a wreath on a head, on a staff or around a dancing figure says the road has been walked and recognised. The olive means peace after conflict, the palm well-earned success.
Trees and vines deserve their own look. A living branch wound with ivy means growth goes on even in a pause. Grapes and pumpkins are harvest, a feast after work. An apple tree with a serpent is knowledge and experience, while a tree of flames is living desire.
How to play
Every run gives you five questions out of twelve, with the answers shuffled each time. After each answer you see an explanation and a link to the card page with the full scene. Keys come for a run with no mistakes, and you can return as often as you like.
All questions and answers
Open after you play: the full question set with right answers and explanations.
1. On which card does a kneeling child hold white flowers?
Right answer: Death
Death: a king, a bishop and a child with flowers bow before the rider. Change comes to everyone, whatever their rank.
2. What does the living, ivy-wound branch of the Hanged Man mean?
Right answer: Growth goes on in a pause
The branch is green and alive: growth goes on even while nothing seems to move on the outside.
3. On which card does a tree of flames burn behind the man?
Right answer: The Lovers
The Lovers: the burning tree behind the man is passion and living desire, while the apple tree behind the woman is knowledge.
4. The apple tree with a serpent on The Lovers means sin and punishment.
Right answer: Myth
The apple tree wound with a golden serpent is knowledge, temptation and experience. The angel above blesses the union.
5. What do the olive branch and palm leaf on the Ace of Swords' crown mean?
Right answer: Peace and earned success
The olive is peace that follows an honest word, and the palm is success that has been earned.
6. Who holds a sunflower on a long stem?
Right answer: Queen of Wands
The Queen of Wands: sunflowers turn toward the sun, and she turns toward life the same way, shining herself.
7. What does the great laurel wreath around the dancer on The World mean?
Right answer: A cycle and victory
The wreath is a completed cycle and a victory earned, and the dance inside it shows wholeness living in motion.
8. On which card do vines heavy with grapes curl at the feet of a grey-haired old man under an arch?
Right answer: Ten of Pentacles
Ten of Pentacles: an old man in a crested cloak, vines at his feet, a couple and a boy nearby, generations as one.
9. What flowers make up the child's wreath on The Sun?
Right answer: Daisies and a sunflower
Daisies and a sunflower, and beyond the wall more sunflowers reach for the light: everything alive grows toward brightness.
10. Roses on tarot cards always mean love for another person.
Right answer: Myth
The Magician's red roses are desire, and the Fool's white rose is a pure intention. A rose means more than romance.
11. What do the flower garlands linking the woman and the lion on Strength do?
Right answer: Bind them into one
She does not hold the beast by force: the flowers bind them into one whole, and the lion leans toward her.
12. On which card are the staffs wound with ivy and roses under a garland?
Right answer: Four of Wands
Four of Wands: the arch of staffs is both a wedding canopy and a home's gate. What you built yourself has become support.