Andy Hertzfeld (original Mac's hardware wizard) tells the story in https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Swedish_Campground.txt https://

Andy Hertzfeld (original Mac's hardware wizard) tells the story in https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Swedish_Campground.txt https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor... : Our bitmap artist Susan Kare had a comprehensive international symbol dictionary and she leafed through it, looking for an appropriate symbol that was distinctive, attractive and had at least something to do with the concept of a menu command. Finally she came across a floral symbol that was used in Sweden to indicate an interesting feature or attraction in a campground.