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2 Massive Starlet Coral -
1 Deer stomping -
5 Owl Butterfly -
2 Oncidium in my Orchid Garden -
2 Vanda in my Orchid Garden -
2 Sea Rocket (Iceplant) -
1 Heliconia -
2 California Sea Lions -
2 Peony - Japanese form -
1 Phalaenopsis in my Orchid Garden -
3 Schlumbergera -
![Red Passion Flower This passion flower vine gave us wonderful shade for our beautiful orchids.
"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,red passion flower](https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.jungledragon.com/images/1780/21124_small.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=05GMT0V3GWVNE7GGM1R2&Expires=1759968010&Signature=9XBDSeMysYrLIo5FoE9xLo1TF%2FY%3D)
1 Red Passion Flower -
1 Coral - Porites divaricata -
3 Feral Iguana in Florida -
1 Little Blue Heron (adult) -
4 Proboscis (Long Nosed) Bats -
2 Antheraea Polyphemus Moth -
2 Barbary Fig - a prickly pear -
3 Common Brain Coral -
1 Nice pearly whites -
1 Coral reef photography -
4 Cuban Tree Frog -
4 3-Toed Brown-Throated Sloth -
3 Wild Banyantree (Shortleaf fig)
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.
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