Passion Flower

[avad]

So I was in a garden-shop, peacefully browsing one the greenhouses...when something tapped my head. I look up to see the most shocking alien mandala projecting from some sort of hanging vine. It is entrancing. the complexity of the bloom was hard to accept. But there it was. And it smelled like grape candy. They call it a passion flower.I stared and stared and it haunted me for 2 weeks until I finally had to go back and buy it and take it home. The internet oracle tells me this:
The Legend. Legend has it that in 1620 a Jesuit priest in Peru came across the plant we now know as passion flower. Enthralled with its beauty, that night he had a vision likening its floral parts to the elements of the Crucifixion or Passion of Christ. The five petals and five sepals became the ten apostles (omitting Peter and Judas). The three pistils became the nails of the cross; the purple corona (or filaments) was the crown of thorns, and the stemmed ovary was the Lord's goblet.
crazy. Here are pics of the first bloom in my house.*mesmerized sigh*

Comments

[rokkitz.livejournal.com]

this bloom is in your house!?! holy kamolie! inspected by the radiant multi-faceted eye on the antennae of some benevolant vegetative goddess, a never blinking mandala from someone else's universe!

great legend. transfigurative flowers whOOO!

[ouchmyelbow.livejournal.com]

Wowzers McShnowzers

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[avad.livejournal.com]

yep. I'm going to have a drink with it now and see if it speaks. later.

[imjussa6url.livejournal.com]

I find you and your entries soo intriguing. I love it.

[avad.livejournal.com]

Thanks, sweetie!:):)