In my mums winter garden a small but wonderful white Passiflora (probably a Passiflora caerulea ‘Constance Elliot’) plant is blooming. Every other day, one of the flowers opens.
Passiflora, are also known as the passion flowers. The "Passion" in "passion flower" refers to the passion of Jesus in Christian theology. In the 15th and 16th centuries, Spanish Christian missionaries adopted the unique physical structures of this plant, particularly the numbers of its various flower parts, as symbols of the last days of Jesus.
For example: The ten petals and sepals represent the ten faithful apostles (excluding St. Peter the denier and Judas Iscariot the betrayer), the flower's radial filaments, which can number more than a hundred and vary from flower to flower, represent the crown of thorns, the 3 stigmas represent the 3 nails and the 5 anthers below them the 5 wounds (four by the nails and one by the lance). Etc.
Love the story of this flower. Also like the way you did the selective color. Very creative as always. Would like to see this flower in all its colors though.
