Syrian flower with a Dutch name?
In 1990, the Syrian postal service issued a series of five stamps featuring images of flowers. This was to commemorate the International Flower Exhibition in Damascus. Flowers are a favorite theme among many stamp collectors. An advanced collector of flower stamps usually knows the Latin name of the flower in question and, if it exists, the Dutch name as well.
Sometimes stamps appear depicting a flower that does not correspond to the Latin or Dutch name. The series of stamps from Syria shows the following flowers in a strip of five:
De LilyWhich lily is not mentioned, only the English name Lily.
– Under another flower, "Marigold" is listed. This must be the Calendula officinalis are, a so-called composite. In the Netherlands, we just say Marigold.
– According to the text on the stamp, a third flower is named Viburnum opulus. We know this one as Guelder rose or Snowball, but that flower is white. On the stamp, the flower is purple to crimson. Is the Latin name correct?
– Beneath the fourth flower is the name Swan River Daisy, or Brachycome Iberidifolia. The Dutch name? Australian daisy!
– The fifth flower is an absolute riddle. For what is written under the flower? PASTEL-COLORED. Unfortunately, I am not fluent in the Syriac language, but I am curious how this has been translated!
Is there a mistake with the stamp on which the name Pastelkleurig is listed as the flower name? And how did that term end up on this stamp? Dutch influence after all? From whom, then? Great questions for a flower stamp collector to investigate, wouldn't you say? 
The Guelder rose looks like a Hortensia, or Hydrangea, to me. Probably the macrophylla?
The Australian daisy looks to me more like the cow daisy, or Chrysanthemum carinatum. This one comes from the Mediterranean region.
The pastel-colored one, isn't that just a cyclamen?
Cyclamens purpurascens, European cyclamen. That would explain the pastel-colored name, but why a Dutch term was used?