Is there significance to the wearing of a flower behind the left or right ear?

Especially a Hawaiian custom?

Is there significance to the wearing of a flower behind the left or right ear?
Tucking the flower behind your left ear means you're married or not available. The right ear signifies that you're available. A good way to remember is that the left is also the hand you wear a wedding ring on.





Here's another explanation:


http://experts.about.com/q/Hawaii-95/Mea...
Reply:left ear means your a dirty hippie right ear means your a dead dumb dirty hippie
Reply:yes, single or not, but could not say which side is which
Reply:Yeah, if the flower is on the right, you're straight. If the flower's on the left, you're gay.
Reply:More or less it means you are in or out of a relationship dependent on which ear it is in
Reply:i think behind the left ear in hawaii means the woman is single