Comments on: Crown of Thorns

By: amanda

amanda — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:34:20 +0000

Wow another amazing shot great color beautiful background, just beautiful!

By: Gypsy Lala

Gypsy Lala — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:22:18 +0000

It is so lovely macro shot, I love the pretty red color.

By: Quilly

Quilly — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:55:23 +0000

Thank you, Carletta!

By: Carletta

Carletta — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:18:57 +0000

Lovely Quilly!

By: Quilly

Quilly — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:31:11 +0000

Polona — I had never previously heard the legend. The only legend I knew connected to this particular flower was that a frequently robbed bank in Waianae planted these under the window to stop people from bashing the glass with bricks and climbing in to rob them. After the new landscaping went in the window was bashed with a stolen car …..

By: Quilly

Quilly — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:25:29 +0000

Kelley — To identify your tree Amoeba will need the bark, the leaf, the fruit and/or flower. So many things look alike that it takes all the different components to identify it. So, a shot of the entire tree and a close up of the rest should do it.

By: southlakesmom

southlakesmom — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:11:00 +0000

And thanks to Amoeba — I’ve often read about “spurge” but didn’t connect it with anything I understood. Now I have a visual to go with it so thanks, both of you!

If I photograph the bark on the tree outside my window will Amoeba be able to ID’ it? No one I’ve asked knows what it is. It is really cool bark and the tree never flowers. The cardinals LOVE hanging around in it…and whatever it is grows well in Northern Virginia.

By: polona

polona — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:02:56 +0000

what a beautiful specimen, and an outstanding photo!

the plant is well known here, too, along with the legend

By: Quilly

Quilly — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:22:32 +0000

More about the plant from Amoeba. Crown of Thorns.

By: Quilly

Quilly — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:22:00 +0000

Susan — aye. Don’t we all?

By: Quilly

Quilly — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:20:57 +0000

Linda — that’s what I thought when I read about the legend and realized I had a photo of the plant in my archives.

By: Quilly

Quilly — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:20:11 +0000

Dimple — the pounding the crown onto his head is, I think, even more cruel then the beating, primarily because the beating was standard measure and the rest was simply for their own entertainment.

By: Quilly

Quilly — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:17:48 +0000

Doug — yeah! It is good these weren’t around when I was living, “The Grownups Wanted Us Dead” or my stories about crashing my bike into sticker bushes would have ended very differently.

By: Susan at Stony River

Susan at Stony River — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:17:07 +0000

So pretty, and so painful.
Yikes.
I know some people like that.

By: Quilly

Quilly — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:16:14 +0000

Barbara — there are many such strange things in nature.