Krishna Kamal (Passion flower)

Passion flower (Krishna Kamal) vine produces exquisite white flowers with purple, blue, or pink calyx crown blooms. It is one of the most attractive flowering plants to have in the garden. The flower is complex, about 10 cm diameter, with the five sepals and petals similar in appearance, whitish in colour, surmounted by a corona of blue or violet filaments, then five greenish-yellow stamens and three purple stigmas. It is believed with reference of Hindu epic ‘Mahabharata’ that : There are about 100 of blue petals – one for each of the Kauravas. 5 of the yellow ones in the centre – one for each of the Pandavas. The green bulb in the centre symbolises Draupadi, the queen of Pandava. The three filaments are for the holy trinity of Brahma-Vishnu-Shiv. The radial in the centre is the Sudarshan chakra of Lord Krishna. Its colour, fragrance, shape, the vine, the leaves; everything about it is simply unique and magically beautiful.