...my Passion Flower has finished flowering...
...but I find it's spiral tendrils just as beautiful...
...and did you know the symbolism of the different floral parts :...
...the five petals and five sepals taken together represent the ten faithful apostles...
...(excluding St Peter the denier and Judas the betrayer)...
...the flower's radial filaments or corona represent the crown of thorns...
...the three stigmas represent the three nails and the five anthers the five wounds...
...(four by nails and one by the lance)...
...and the tendrils represent the whips used in the flagellation of Christ...
