Candlewick flower

Candlewick flowers were the flowers of a climbing plant found on Alderaan and Birren that bloomed during late spring. They opened during the night, revealing their luminescent petals in pale orange and gold. They grew in the gardens at Alderaan's royal palace, which could be seen from the palace's private library, and vines of candlewick flowers grew around the rails on the south terrace.

When Princess Leia Organa was a small child she used to believe that the glowing from the pulmonodes in the chest of her mother, Queen Breha Organa, was a bouquet of blooming candlewick flowers. Even after realizing that the glow was her mother's pulmonodes, even meeting many others with the same mechanical organ replacements, Leia still harbored affection for the flowers as to her they would always symbolize magic and love.

Alderaanian settlers to the planet Birren introduced native Alderaanian plants, including the candlewick flower. After the destruction of Alderaan, Birren was one of the few places they could be found growing in the wild.

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