Floral emblem tree. The "heilala" ("Garcinia sessilis") is Tonga's national flower. The name of Tonga's beauty pageant, the Heilala Festival, is taken from this flower. Resorts, as well as products, are also often named after this flower, such as the Heilala Lodge and Heilala Vanilla. The flower is also used in Tonga for medicinal and ornamental purposes. The national flower of Argentina is the flower of the ceibo tree ("Erythrina crista-galli"), also known as "seibo" or "bucaré" Bolivian national flowers are the "kantuta" ("Cantua buxifolia") and "patujú" ("Heliconia rostrata"). The national flower of Brazil is the flower of the Golden Trumpet Tree
The Flame and the Flower but the skittish horse he chose bucks him to the ground. A tree limb collapsed on him, killing him instantly. The charges against Brandon are dropped, and he and Heather live happily ever after. At the time of this novel's publication, romance novels, especially those distributed in mass-market format, were generally very chaste, with minimal physical intimacy between the protagonists. Heroines remained virgins–or chaste widows–throughout the novel. "The Flame and the Flower" departed from this notion quite early in the book. The sexual encounters were not only graphic, but also sometimes violent and non-consensual. The heroine was not only raped