Cane cross

Sugar cane cross in the coat of arms of St. Lucia

The cane cross is a common figure in heraldry .

It is made from the stalk of the sugar cane plant like a common cross and is probably only represented in the coat of arms of the island state of St. Lucia .

Blazon of the coat of arms : "In blue a golden sugar cane cross, topped with a golden stool, angled in one and four by a golden rose with a red, green tipped and golden rose, and in two and three by a golden lily ."

The coat of arms has been blue since 1970 and black from 1939 to 1970. Through the sugar cane Cross can be the coat of arms as quartered conceive.

Individual evidence

^ The Coat of Arms of Saint Lucia. (No longer available online.) Government of Saint Lucia, January 8, 1979, archived from the original on February 4, 2012 ; Accessed on May 31, 2013 (English): "Azure two sticks of cut bamboo in Cross surmounted of an African stool of authority Or between in dexter chief and sinister base a Rose Argent charged with another Gules both barbed and seeded proper an in sinister chief and dexter base a Fleur-de-lis Gold and for the Crest upon a Helm with a Wreath Orand Azure in front of two Fronds of the Fern Polypoduim in Saltire a Cubit Arm proper the hand holding erect a Torch Gold enflamed also proper and for the Supporters on either side a Saint Lucia Parrot commonly called Jacquot (Amazonaversicolor) wings elevated and addorsed and in the beak of each a Frond of the Fern Polypoduim all proper and for the Motto: THE LAND-THE PEOPLE-THE LIGHT as the same are in the painting here unto annexed more plainly depicted to be borne for Our said Territory of Saint Lucia the whole according to the Laws of Arms. "

[1] The Coat of Arms of Saint Lucia. (No longer available online.) Government of Saint Lucia, January 8, 1979, archived from the original on February 4, 2012 ; Accessed on May 31, 2013 (English): "Azure two sticks of cut bamboo in Cross surmounted of an African stool of authority Or between in dexter chief and sinister base a Rose Argent charged with another Gules both barbed and seeded proper an in sinister chief and dexter base a Fleur-de-lis Gold and for the Crest upon a Helm with a Wreath Orand Azure in front of two Fronds of the Fern Polypoduim in Saltire a Cubit Arm proper the hand holding erect a Torch Gold enflamed also proper and for the Supporters on either side a Saint Lucia Parrot commonly called Jacquot (Amazonaversicolor) wings elevated and addorsed and in the beak of each a Frond of the Fern Polypoduim all proper and for the Motto: THE LAND-THE PEOPLE-THE LIGHT as the same are in the painting here unto annexed more plainly depicted to be borne for Our said Territory of Saint Lucia the whole according to the Laws of Arms. "