Orange blossom tattoo meaning is splendor, love, strong marriage, and also fertility, therefore Saracen brides carried it as a fruitfulness sign. Here you can find an image gallery of different orange flower blossoms, orange tree, and orange fruit tattoos designs and ideas.
For guys and men an orange tree tattoo, or orange fruit tattoo means to look fresh and young. For the owners of such a tattoo, it is important to lead a healthy lifestyle and not abuse harmful foods and drinks.
For girls, an orange fruit tattoo has the meaning of cleanliness and health. It is quite common among young girls who follow fashion and prefer to decorate their bodies with catchy tattoos.
The orange blossom tattoo in combination with orange fruit slices means the beauty of the soul, inexperience, the freshness of feelings and sensations, Such tattoos shows the naivety, sincerity of the owner, her desire to enjoy life and learn new things.
Orange flower blossom and orange tree meaning in different cultures
In different countries and in different cultures flowers of the orange trees and orange fruits have different meanings, so such tattoos can have different meanings too.
At Chinese, the orange flower is a symbol of immortality and good luck.
In Christianity, the orange flower means cleanliness, chastity, and virginity that is why it was used in a wedding wreath. In the images of paradise, the orange is a fruit of fall, in the hand of the baby-Christ, it can be represented instead of an apple.
In Ancient Greece, the orange flower was Diana’s emblem.
In Japan, the orange flower symbolizes pure love.
The custom according to which brides bore flowers of orange or decorated themselves, originates in Muslim wedding rituals. The orange symbolized simultaneously virginity and fertility and was the image of Immaculate Conception as flowers and fruits could appear simultaneously on one tree.
Thus, orange flowers symbolized virginity of the bride and simultaneously served as a magic thing for born children. The orange inevitably associated with maiden Maria, “Simultaneously carrying a white flower of her virginity and the fetus of her purity”.
Oranges have definitively affirmed in Europe only in the XII century. They basically were grown in Southern France and on the Iberian Peninsula, and soon began to identify with the Gisperid’s gold apples from the Greek myth.
In Persian language orange was called “Narang”, in Arabian – “Naranj”, and in Spanish – “Naranja”. The initial letter has been lost because of the mess with the indefinite article in the English language – the word “A Naranja” has gradually turned into “An Orange”.
Orange blossom, orange tree and fruit tattoo designs and ideas
