The flower comes from East Asia and symbolizes a story of memory, myth and displacement. Now, there’s a movement afoot to choose a new, native state symbol.By Ryan KrugmanAs Tony Harris walks through his garden, he stops beside a young sapling, its thin branches stretching upward into the early spring air. In a few years, he says, it will bloom with fragrant white flowers the size of a fist.

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