2021年8月23日月曜日

時計草 passion flower

 こんな奇っ怪で複雑な造形が、自然界で作られることに驚きます。
 英語の名前にある passion には情熱の意味もありますが、この植物名の passion は受難の意味です。

 I am surprised that such strange and complicated shape is made in the world of nature.
 The word of passion in the English name of the grass means "strong feeling", but it also has the other meaning of "suffering". Here, the meaning is the later.
 The pistil split into three looks like the long hand, the short hand, and the second hand on the clock, so it is called a grass of  clock in Japanese.



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