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Asphodeline lutea
It's the veil-like membranes around the fresh flower (almost still a bud) of this yellow asphodel that led me to this post.
The asphodels from Greek antiquity are considered a landmark of the dead. The poem 'Stratis Thalassinos Among the Agapanthi' of Nobel Prize-winning poet George Seferis, opens with an Odysseus figure in a land of the dead: "There are no asfodels, violets, nor hyacinths./ how to talk to the dead./ The dead know only the language of flowers./ that's why they are silent"
Spotted on Apr 22, 2020
Submitted on Apr 24, 2020
2 Comments
Thanks Tukup!
What a pretty flower and interesting notes. Thanks for sharing Tania.