Friday, April 17, 2009

Below in the darkness, but shielded

A dark flower (that appears, briefly, in the secret places of our woods always around Holy Week). For the Orthodox Christians, now under the heaviness of "Good" Friday and Holy Saturday.
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13 comments:

  1. Reader WilApril 17, 2009 at 5:30 PM

    A very remarkable flower! I have never seen a black flower!

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  2. CathMApril 17, 2009 at 6:18 PM

    What an amazing flower... black, wow!

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  3. FidaApril 17, 2009 at 10:54 PM

    I love those dark colours. I just wandered through a part of a garden in the Tessin (Switzerland) that is dedicated to black flowering beauties - it was amazing.

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  4. Jeannette StGApril 17, 2009 at 11:36 PM

    Wow, how symbolic! The only other flowers I know are a blue-black variety tulip they've propagated in Holland. Do you know the scientific name of it?

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  5. DApril 18, 2009 at 3:17 AM

    That is very interesting. Is it some sort of lily?

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  6. PatsyApril 18, 2009 at 3:18 AM

    Well that is amazing.
    Patsy

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  7. AnonymousApril 18, 2009 at 7:31 AM

    does it have a scent?

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  8. Pietro BrosioApril 18, 2009 at 9:28 AM

    An interesting flower, Dina.
    A 2004 painting of mine (exhibited, at the moment) is called The black flowers!

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  9. KayApril 18, 2009 at 10:49 AM

    That is such a beautiful and unusual flower. I wonder what it is. Very interesting.

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  10. DinaApril 18, 2009 at 11:01 AM

    Thanks for writing, friends. Last year I posted a flower like this one and got all kinds of suggestions for names in the Comments.
    See
    http://jerusalemhillsdailyphoto.blogspot.com/2008/04/hidden-beauty.html

    I now think the flower is a Palestine arum, Arum palaestinum, in Hebrew luf eretzyisraeli.
    Apparently the plant's common names are Adam-and-Eve plant, black calla lily, caladium, cuckoopint, Italian arum, Solomon's lily, dragon arum.

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  11. AnonymousApril 18, 2009 at 2:03 PM

    I like the looks of this flower in black. Wow. I have some "black" iris or we call them "flags" that could possibly look similar to this but I think the black flags are green when they emerge from the ground.

    Calla Lily. How neat that is.

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  12. Maria VerivakiApril 18, 2009 at 6:27 PM

    we have this flower in crete too - it is a kind of lily, and i think it is rather stinky when you cut it!

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  13. UnknownApril 20, 2009 at 11:02 PM

    Oh wow Mother Nature is truly spectacular. I've never heard of such, nor will I probably ever see one of these. Thanks for posting this photograph.
    Happy Twirls

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