"The flamingo lily's Mandarin name sounds a bit like the Taiwanese for 'give something good,' and the flower is often used to win someone's affections," says Lin Chin-shan, who presides over Kaohsiung's Green Flower Transportation and Sales Cooperative.
不同於文心蘭高達 9 成的外銷率，火鶴花因本地內需市場行情好，約有 4 ~ 5 成留在國內銷售。「火鶴台語諧音『給好』，是很討喜的花卉，」高雄縣綠色花卉運銷合作社理事長林青山對於火鶴自有一番見解。