passion flower

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snap of a passion flower growing wild that we stumbled across. all this time we thought this lovely flowering vine was seen as symbolic of the crucifixion of jesus christ but turns out they also have a medicinal use as well.

click here to view a short vid clip of a passion flower bloom opening and for links to more information.

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And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

And the evening and the morning were the third day. ~ genesis chapter one verses eleven through thirteen kjv

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