Flowers

Alice Turner · 20 Jul 1999, 07:32 · from urth-v0028.mbox · original

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From: "Alice Turner" <akt at ibm.net>
Subject: (urth) Flowers
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 07:32:38
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> From: "Tony Ellis" <tony.ellis at futurenet.co.uk>
> What a fascinating article, Roy!
>
> I hadn't even finished it when I started thinking of the "sprawling
> angel's trumpets" which are the very last words of The Fifth Head of
> Cerberus. They work on various levels, of course, including a
> symbolic link to the silver trumpet vine of the opening paragraphs,
> but now I'm curious as to what (if any) meaning they have in
> florigraphy.

=46rom Wyman's Gardening Encyclopedia:

Angel's Trumpet =3D Brugmansia

The leaves and seeds of this Peruvian  plant are poisonous. Sometimes grown
as an ornamental for its large, white, solitary, trumpet-shaped flowers, 10"
long. These have a musky odor, open at night, and have 5 twisted segments in
the corolla. The large grayish-green leaves are 8" long, thick, velvety and
are borne in pairs; one is a third shorter than the other.

-alga


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