OK, this is how you know I'm not just pretending to have grown up in the Old Country. Between a steady diet of Itchy & Scratchy during my formative years and a national sport which consists of violence punctuated by committee meetings, I had fixated so much on the floral song conceits that I'd completely spaced on all the ultra violence.
Let's see if there are any US Top 100's (1955-1992) in which lyrics are ambiguous between human and botanic...
OK, that's more than I'd thought, but considering those 4 are out of ~3'300 titles, I'm pretty confident there'd be (relatively speaking? or even absolutely?) far more eastern entries, and maybe far more even if we limited them to the format of "${COLOR} ${FLOWER}".
Let's see if there are any US Top 100's (1955-1992) in which lyrics are ambiguous between human and botanic...
1961 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT-tYh3OSUQ "san antonio rose"
1962 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdGphk-XTh8 "rambling rose"
1973 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9bJJNUdXEs "wildflower"
1980 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Het6ww147Es "the rose"
OK, that's more than I'd thought, but considering those 4 are out of ~3'300 titles, I'm pretty confident there'd be (relatively speaking? or even absolutely?) far more eastern entries, and maybe far more even if we limited them to the format of "${COLOR} ${FLOWER}".