Your Mother's Day flowers likely passed through Miami

• About 327,000 tons of flowers — worth about $1.6 billion — fly into Miami annually.

How it works: The shipments mainly come from Colombia and Ecuador, an MIA spokesperson tells Axios.

• The flowers are stored at about 34° at every stop of their journey to keep them fresh, a spokesperson for flower distributors Realterm and C.H. Robinson tells Axios.
• Some of the flowers the companies handle remain in Miami but a majority of them are shipped across the U.S.

Of note: While Miami is known for its imported flowers, our area is also a big domestic producer, according to local wholesaler Berkeley Florist Supply.