May 24
Birthday Color: Cypress Green
#264939 · rgb(38, 73, 57) · hsl(153, 32%, 22%) · CMYK(48,0,22,71)
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Zodiac: Gemini ♊
Color words & personality
Assigned to May 24, Cypress Green belongs to a family read as balanced and steady. Its color words point to patience: you grow things at their pace, not yours, and they last because of it. In print, this color shows a deep tone that absorbs rather than reflects light. Birthday colors are not science — enjoy them as part of your birth-date identity.
Try it: For room fabric or a plant pot — a color that brings calm.
As a gift: Green quietly accompanies everyday things. → Pick a gift color by birthday color
Birth flower, star, fish & fruit of May 24
Birth star
Acrab
Star words: tenacity, grip
Scorpius · β Sco · mag 2.56 — Culminates around midnight
Birth flower
Streptocarpus
Meaning: small happiness, sincere
Peak: May, Jun, Jul
May 24 is streptocarpus, a flower that opens in April and keeps going through October. Hanakotoba meanings are small happiness and sincere. Peak season runs from May to July. The birthday color is Cypress Green (#264939), a dark blue-green whose color word is "patience." Small happiness is not a small thing, and the color seems to know it.
Acrab takes its name from al-aqrab — 'the scorpion' itself — and guards the creature's claws as the birth star of May 24. A telescope splits it into two, and it once answered to Graffias, 'the claws.' Its star words are tenacity and grip. Around midnight it stands highest in the south. The birthday color is Cypress Green (#264939), patience: pincers that never release, and an evergreen that outlasts the winter — a small salute to those who refuse to quit.
The birthday fish for May 24 is the Stonefish relative, held in the words “sting” and “omen”. Plain in looks yet rich in flavor, it is said to have deepened soba broth in old kitchens. Its peak season is May. The birth color of the day is Cypress Green #264939, a still green for patience. Serve its quiet savor as today's small gift to the table.
For May 24, the birth fruit is the Mango. A tropical fruit of the season, the Mango arrives from Jun and Jul. In fruit words, it stands for passion and southern isles. Peak season: Jun and Jul. This day's birthday color: Cypress Green (#264939). Its color word is "patience". A seasonal fruit and a birthday color, sharing one date.
Our birth flowers are an independently compiled system based on flowering seasons and hanakotoba. Birth stars are assigned by an astronomical rule — the IAU-named star culminating around midnight on that date. Birth fish and fruits are compiled independently by peak season (fish include seafood).
About this date's birth flower
- What is the birth flower for May 24?
- The birth flower for May 24 is the Streptocarpus. Its hanakotoba include small happiness, sincere, and its peak season is May, Jun, Jul.
- What is the birth fish for May 24?
- The birth fish for May 24 is the Stonefish relative. Its fish words include sting, omen, and its peak season is May.
- What is the birth fruit for May 24?
- The birth fruit for May 24 is the Mango. Its fruit words include passion, southern isles, and its peak season is Jun, Jul.
- What is the birthday color for May 24?
- The birthday color for May 24 is Cypress Green (#264939). It pairs with the day's flower, Streptocarpus.
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Color palette for Cypress Green
Monochrome (lightness steps)
#458568
oklch(56.5% 0.081 162.7)
#264939
oklch(37.4% 0.050 162.9)
base
#0E1B15
oklch(20.8% 0.022 163.8)
Analogous (±30°)
#264928
oklch(36.9% 0.069 145.2)
#264939
oklch(37.4% 0.050 162.9)
base
#264849
oklch(37.6% 0.040 198.1)
Complementary (+180°)
#264939
oklch(37.4% 0.050 162.9)
#492636
oklch(32.1% 0.057 352.0)
base
#9D5274
oklch(53.9% 0.107 352.7)
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