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Camouflage
2008.04.15
It was a small plant when it was brought home ...
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It was a small plant when it was brought home ...
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... to grow (hopefully) over the casita which was built to hide
a large storage tank of fuel for central heating and hot water
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... to grow (hopefully) over the casita which was built to hide
a large storage tank of fuel for central heating and hot water
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6 months later, it has crept and crawled ...
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6 months later, it has crept and crawled ...
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... around the sides ...
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... around the sides ...
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... across the adjoining trellises ...
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... across the adjoining trellises ...
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... over to the carport ...
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... over to the carport ...
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... a whole host of passion flowers ...
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... a whole host of passion flowers ...
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... and it all started with just a little plant –– and a lot of hope.
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... and it all started with just a little plant –– and a lot of hope.
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Passion flower is a genus of about 500 species of flowering plants in the family Passifloraceae.
"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 radial filaments, which can number more than a hundred and vary from flower to flower, 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).
(Source: Wikipedia)
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wow- and you kept track of it- I'm so impressed!~ R
