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Dahlia 'Adelaide Fontane'. Dahlia, national flower of Mexico, known to the Aztecs as cocoxochitl, or at least that was the version of the Aztec name recorded by Francisco Hernandez, physician to Philip II, who compiled a thesaurus of medicinal plants from "New Spain." The flower name dahlia is a Swedish name, meaning "from the valley," In the language of the flowers, depending on which source you use, the dahlia means gratitude, dignity, pomp, instability and misrepresentation.