TWIST AND SHOUT… Aquilegia
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This columbine cultivar is perennial that features large, upward facing, fragrant, bright bi-toned flowers with outward curving spurs.
Flowers grow on a long stem above the leaves and have five pointed sepals and five petals with long spurs projecting backwards between the sepals.
Aquilegia comes from the Latin word for eagle in reference to the flower's five spurs which purportedly resemble an eagle's talon.
The plant's seeds and roots are highly poisonous however, and contain cardiogenic toxins which cause both severe gastroenteritis and heart palpitations if consumed as food.
Native Americans used very small amounts of Aquilegia root as a treatment for ulcers.
However, the medical use of this plant is better avoided due to its high toxicity; columbine poisonings may be fatal.
It is ALWAYS better to wash your hands thoroughly, after handling flowers!
Thank you for your time and comments, greatly appreciated, M, (*_*)
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Aquilegia, Granny's-bonnet, Golden-columbine, curvy, "conceptual art", design, flower, bud, purple, mauve, blueish, white, studio, black-background, colour, square, "Magda indigo"
TWIST AND SHOUT… Aquilegia
#AbFav_PHOTOSTORY
#AB_FAV_ANYTHING_GOES_ 🎨
This columbine cultivar is perennial that features large, upward facing, fragrant, bright bi-toned flowers with outward curving spurs.
Flowers grow on a long stem above the leaves and have five pointed sepals and five petals with long spurs projecting backwards between the sepals.
Aquilegia comes from the Latin word for eagle in reference to the flower's five spurs which purportedly resemble an eagle's talon.
The plant's seeds and roots are highly poisonous however, and contain cardiogenic toxins which cause both severe gastroenteritis and heart palpitations if consumed as food.
Native Americans used very small amounts of Aquilegia root as a treatment for ulcers.
However, the medical use of this plant is better avoided due to its high toxicity; columbine poisonings may be fatal.
It is ALWAYS better to wash your hands thoroughly, after handling flowers!
Thank you for your time and comments, greatly appreciated, M, (*_*)
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
Please do not use any of my images on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved
Aquilegia, Granny's-bonnet, Golden-columbine, curvy, "conceptual art", design, flower, bud, purple, mauve, blueish, white, studio, black-background, colour, square, "Magda indigo"