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Yellow Asphodel
Asphodeline lutea
38.0045, 23.8331
Field Notes
Description:
It's the veil-like membranes around the fresh flower (almost still a bud) of this yellow asphodel that led me to this post.
Notes:
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"
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PublishedApril 24, 2020
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