Now a popular Christmas tradition ... Christ and the 12 apostles), garnished with holly (to represent the crown of thorns), and ceremoniously lit on fire (to represent the passion of Christ).

both evergreen plants are traditional Christmas symbols: the holly for part of the same reason as the Glastonbury Rose is, because it represents the Crown of Thorns that the Savior will wear ...

Here are just a few of the legends surrounding our most popular Christmas plants ... with the Christian symbolism of Jesus’ crown of thorns, but there are a lot of other folklore tales of ...