About Kharibulbul
Some plants of the world are endemic – they grow only in one specific place with a most favourable concurrence of natural factors. The South Caucasus is a unique ecosystem that houses a large number of plant species that cannot be found anywhere else on earth.
Some of these species are confined to a very limited
space. The flower Khari bulbul (Xarı Bülbül) is one of them: it grows only in
the Shusha region of the South Caucasus (called Shushi by Armenians, ed.). The
shape of the flower resembles a nightingale, hence its name: “Khar” means
“thorn” in Azerbaijani, and “bulbul” means “nightingale”. If you look at the
flower closely, you can easily discern three petals spreading in three
different directions. Two of them are like wings, and the third one in the
middle is shaped like a bird’s head with a beak.
Each spring the flower opens its three petals.
Admiring the self-sacrifice of wild flowers, nightingales fly up to them, but they
do not sing – they wail. “Khar” is eternally ashamed and hides his head in the
flower’s petals, forever depriving himself of the light and beauty of the
world…
The Azerbaijani population of Mountaineous Karabakh
has always had very sentimental feelings for Khari bulbul. The flower turned
into a symbol of Shusha, of the whole of Karabakh. Today its name is used by
local music bands, and its image can be found in the ornaments on traditional
Azerbaijani rugs and even on the manat, the national currency… Yet, the flower
itself can no longer be seen…
Finally I wan’t to say that, everybody: LET’S PROTECT
AZERBAIJAN’S KHARI BULBUL!
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