Flowers?

[Robert Davison, City Polytechnic of Hong Kong, 788-7534]

>          various other things: apparently in Germany bringing red
>          roses says that you're in love with the hostess.  White is
>          the color of death in some countries, and you don't bring
>          white flowers there.
>                         Charles Gribble   Gribble.3 at osu.edu

white is the colour of death in hong kong, and so presumably china, as well
as black. no idea about if number of flowers is significant.
robert