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:
A very remarkable flower! I have never seen a black flower!
What an amazing flower... black, wow!
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.
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?
That is very interesting. Is it some sort of lily?
Well that is amazing.
Patsy
does it have a scent?
An interesting flower, Dina.
A 2004 painting of mine (exhibited, at the moment) is called The black flowers!
That is such a beautiful and unusual flower. I wonder what it is. Very interesting.
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.
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.
we have this flower in crete too - it is a kind of lily, and i think it is rather stinky when you cut it!
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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