Passionflower

[Analoguesat]

Cheating a bit as this is taken in my mums back garden on a hot summers afternoon in July 2004. However its a nice pic taken by my other half.

[Chocky]

Excellent capture.
I like Passion Flowers. I had them growing on a wall trellis a while back and you can eat the fruit they bare too. Iused to give it to my parrot

[rolf]

Yes, the fruit is edible, but makes better jam. the flowers have an amazing structure and are a magnetic attraction to many insects.

[Chocky]

Yes. The intricate pattern refers to the Christian theological icon of 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, particularly the numbers of its various parts, as symbols of the last days of Jesus Christ and especially the Crucifixion
Quot from Wikipedia

It's a truly beautiful flower

[Merlin]

Thanks for the quote from Wikipedia Beryl......interesting and didn't know this.

Lovely pic of a lovely flower Ross but if you call your wife 'my other half' once more I'm never going to talk to you again as I'm quite convinced she is a lovely lady with a name.


Pete.

[Analoguesat]

SWMBO's name is Carol and shes a lovely lass who doesnt mind me filling the garden with satellite dishes (5 so far), watches rocket launches with me and will even wander out into the cold with me to see a bright Iridium telephone satellite flare overhead (as happened half an hour ago!) She loves botany, has forgotten more about flowers than I will ever know and works for Scottish Natural Heritage trying to stop the local builders ruining this lovely area by filling every corner with badly built little boxes

[Merlin]

That will do for me Ross......Carol it is then. But now I'm putting my reputation on the line because it may well be that there's only me who doesn't know the answer this one but what's SWMBO?


Pete.

[rolf]

She Who Must Be Obeyed Pete.

[Chocky]

She Who Must Be Obeyed
You beet me to it Rolf.........as always

[Merlin]

OK thanks for this. If I'd have put some more time in on this one I'm pretty sure I would have eventually worked it out, as it was I had no idea. But I did work out Ross's latest one BTW......I'm off to get out the paracetamol now!


Pete.