"Remembrance Day" is the primary designation for the day in many Commonwealth countries such as Australia and Canada. However, "Armistice Day" also remains, often to differentiate the event from Remembrance Sunday, and is the primary designation used in New Zealand and France.
"Poppy Day" is also a popular term used, particularly in Malta and South Africa. Veterans Day also falls upon this day in the United States, yet many other allied nations have quite different Veterans Days.
In Australia and New Zealand the poppies are curled at the petals with no leaf.
In Ceylon - present-day Sri Lanka - in the inter-war years, there were rival sales of yellow Suriya (portia tree) flowers by the Suriya-Mal Movement on Remembrance Day, since funds from poppy sales were not used for Sri Lankan ex-service personnel but were repatriated to Britain. However, nowadays poppy sales are used for indigenous ex-service personnel who have been disabled in the ongoing civil war.
In Hong Kong, poppies are sold on the streets by members of the Hong Kong Ex-Servicemen Association on Remembrance Sunday. The poppies are mostly paper representatives of the flat Earl Haig variety with a leaf, mounted on a plastic stem, and resembles those sold in the United Kingdom. The poppies are also worn by many attendants of the multi-faith memorial service by the Cenotaph in Central, Hong Kong on Remembrance Sunday.
In the United States of America, the American Legion distributes crepe-paper poppies in exchange for contributions. "Poppy Day" is usually the same as or near Memorial Day in May. However, many Legion groups also make poppies available around November 11.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day
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