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3 Cacao (ripe) -
6 Eastern Box Turtle -
6 Kalanchoe blossfeldiana -
5 Emerald Swallowtail -
3 Colmanara in my Orchid Garden -
6 Blue Morpho -
7 California Sea Lion -
4 Porcupinefish -
3 Antiguan Ground Lizard -
4 Brown booby -
![Midland Brown Snake The midland brown is a very mild mannered snake and usually attempts to escape first and foremost when encountered but may even play dead or flatten its body to appear larger. If picked up the snake may release a fowl smelling musk but will not bite you. These snakes are many times brought as gifts by cats and dogs to their unwary owners after a day of stalking in the flower bed. As all Georgia's non-venomous snakes, the midland brown is protected due to their assistance in pest control. Their diet consists of earthworms, slugs, snails insects and spiders.
They give birth to what appears to be live young [3-31] but technically they are not...they hatch inside the mother's body and the eggs are retained in the mother. DeKay,Georgia,Geotagged,Midland brown snake,Storeria dekayi,United States](https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.jungledragon.com/images/1780/22148_small.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=05GMT0V3GWVNE7GGM1R2&Expires=1759968010&Signature=dAHPb2oEntNJm%2FMFWmQsa2lS5gg%3D)
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![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)
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3 Red-bellied Woodpecker chick -
3 Spotted Oleander Caterpillar Moth -
5 Nigerian dwarf goat -
4 Atlas moths -
4 Malachite Butterfly -
3 Clipper butterfly -
3 Coqui -
6 Southern Leopard Frog -
2 Monterey Cypress -
3 Brandt's Cormorants -
2 Pink Torch Ginger -
2 Perfect pose...White-tailed doe and fawn.
Lilygirl
I am a nurse by profession and an animal and plant lover by heart. Photography and my back yard flowers are my hobbies. Travel, is also one of my loves.
I am so excited about finding this website as a means to interact with others who have similar interests, and to be able to learn more about those things that interest me.
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