A Special Flower
by Dawn Currie
Title
A Special Flower
Artist
Dawn Currie
Medium
Photograph - Digital
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Photographic Artwork by Dawn Currie. Close-up photograph of a passion flower taken in my own garden in central Florida.
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Passiflora, known also as the passion flowers or passion vines, is a genus of about 500 species of flowering plants, the namesakes of the family Passifloraceae. They are mostly vines, with some being shrubs, and a few species being herbaceous.
The Christian symbolism of the passion flower: Five petals & five sepals are ten apostles, leaving out Judas the betrayer & Peter because he denied knowing Jesus. The purple carolla has seventy-two filaments, the number of thorns in Jesus's crown. The three pistil stigmas are nails. The five stamens are the number of wounds. When the flowers are spent after a single day (the time Jesus spent on the cross), the petals do not drop from the vine but re-close over the ovary, & this symbolizes the hidden wisdom that constitutes the mysteries of the cross, & is like Jesus enclosed in the tomb.
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April 3rd, 2015
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