From the floral epiphanies to the flowering bushes of Magna Graecia and Sicily. A journey through the vegetal ornaments red-figured and overpainted ceramics · Vegetal decoration in the figured productions of pre-Roman Italy was one of the many topics that attracted Enzo Lippolis’ attention. In the Classical and Hellenistic period it contributed to creating connections between the figurative tradition of the great centres of the Mediterranean, mobilizing diπerent forms of crafts and defining the language of a koiné marked by the transfer of decorative patterns and the mobility of artisans. Among the many research trajectories he opened up, we have chosen to analyze the floral epiphanies and blossoming bushes that flourished on red-figured and overpainted vases of the4th and 3rd centuries BC, which lead us from Magna Graecia to Sicily. It is by seeking to unravel the tangle of the intertwined stems on a batch of fragments from Megara Hyblaea that we have been able to ascertain the path of Apulian inspiration from eastern Sicily back to the productions of Taranto.