Sodom apple blossoms

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Sodom apple blossoms

***** Location: Yemen
***** Season: Spring
***** Category: Plant

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Explanation




Apple of Sodom
Calotropis procera

One of the most distinctive plants growing wild is Sodom Apple. Its beauty lies in its star-shaped purple flowers with their off-white centers. The five petals are a miracle of symmetry. Sodom Apple blooms in spring and its bloom is followed by the formation of kidney-shaped, green fruits. source: www.buzzle.com

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John Milton alludes to this plant in his epic poem, Paradise Lost, while describing the fruit that Satan and his cohorts eat after having tempted Adam and Eve to eat an apple from the Tree of Good and Evil:

...greedy they pluck'd
The Frutage fair to sight, like that which grew
Neer that bituminous Lake where Sodom flam'd;
This more delusive, not the touch, but taste
Deceav'd; they fondly thinking to allay
Thir appetite with gust, instead of Fruit
Chewd bitter Ashes, which th' offended taste
With spattering noise rejected: oft they assayd
Hunger and thirst constraining...

(bk. 10, ll. 520–528)

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India



evening get together--
the Sodom apple's seed takes
a flight around the table

Ranjit Singh Sra


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Things found on the way


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HAIKU

O, purple mystery!
how much time will take this road?
sodom blossoms

Heike Gewi, Yemen, January 2008


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