Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

There are at least two stories in this image…one I did not see when I took the picture. If you look closely, a bee is hiding in the centre of the flower and a long legged fly sits on the edge of the corona.

I have always been fascinated by the strange flowers of this particular plant. We find stories and symbols in many things. The passion flower is not named for the human emotion, but was named by 16th C missionaries for the Passion of Jesus. They saw in the strange bloom a symbolic representation of one of the central moments of the Christian faith, the crucifixion.

There are varied interpretations, and you can almost hear the missionaries as they spoke, each one adding his own personal touches to the way the flower was able to illustrate the story they told.

• The leaves are pointed, like the Holy…