Plants
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Lilygirl created this list 11 years ago
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Barbary Fig - a prickly pear -
Cactus forest -
Duckweed -
Audubon Swamp Garden -
![Passion flower "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 and especially his crucifixion:[citation needed]".
The pointed tips of the leaves were taken to represent the Holy Lance.
The tendrils represent the whips used in the flagellation of Christ.
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 chalice-shaped ovary with its receptacle represents a hammer or the Holy Grail.
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). Geotagged,Passiflora coccinea,United States](https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.jungledragon.com/images/1780/23476_small.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=05GMT0V3GWVNE7GGM1R2&Expires=1759968010&Signature=se%2BZ6LZhzKivRsmwRV85LkcFdp8%3D)
Passion flower -
Sour Sop -
Giant fern frond -
Giant Ferns -
Silver Buttonwood -
Seagrape -
Seagrape -
Cacao (ripe) -
Cacao bean pods -
Mother-in-law's tongue -
Kudzu -
Spanish Moss -
Organpipe cactus -
Giant Kelp -
Turks head cactus -
Silver Ragwort -
Sorbus Domestica -
Lipstick Palm -
Gerbera Daisy (Barberton Daisy) -
Sea Rocket (Iceplant)