I’m sorry that this Green Thumb Sunday post is late. I’ve had a busy weekend and wasn’t able to make my post on early Sunday morning as I normally do.
This photo of a passion flower was taken earlier this week. I took the photo with my new Digital SLR camera. Doesn’t it take a great photo?
I’ve gone nuts over vines this year. A couple of weeks ago I bought two more clematis vines, three different passion flower vines and a tropical vine that I can’t find the name of yet.
This passion flower has a faint scent. You can’t smell it until you actually put your nose to it though. It smells lemony. It’s a lovely fresh scent.
Do you enjoy passion flower vines too?
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What kind of camera do you have? I want to get a digital SLR also, they really do take great pictures like the one you have.
That looks great. Did you know that contrary to it’s name the contrary to its name, Passion flower have a tranquilizing effect, including mild sedative and anti-anxiety effect.
Hi there! Nice blog!
Did you know that “Passion” does not refer to love, but to the Passion of Christ on the cross. In the 15th and 16th centuries, Spanish Christian missionaries discovered this flower and adopted its unique physical structures as symbols of Crucifixion. For example: the 72 radial filaments (or corona) represent the Crown of Thorns. The ten petals and sepals represent the ten faithful apostles. The top 3 stigmata represent the 3 nails and the lower 5 anthers represent the 5 wounds. The flower has been given names related to this symbolism throughout Europe since that time. In Spain, it is known as Espina de Cristo (Christ’s Thorn). In Germany it was once known as Muttergottes-Schuzchen (Mother-of-God’s Star).
Maybe you’ll visit my blog to see some other ‘mysterious plants’, such as Tuba Tub 🙂
Best regards!
That’s what I call a colourful picture!
The colors are gorgeous. It’s such a busy flower nature must’ve spent some time putting together the design LOL.