Blue Passionflower (Passiflora Caerulea) 時計草（トケイソウ）

英語の後に日本語が続きます。

They're blue passionflowers (Passiflora caerulea), but don't you think there's something wrong with them? You do? Yes, their clock hands-like pistils are all closed and don't tell the time! (Their Japanese name is "clock plant.") I noticed it when, as always, I was seeing them wondering what time these clock-like flowers said. I googled and learned that blue passionflowers open in the morning. Their purple brown pistils or clock hands🕙 are still asleep😪! 

Blue Passionflower (Passiflora Caerulea) 時計草（トケイソウ）

英語の後に日本語が続きます。

I thought someone had said "It's eight five and seventeen seconds." These are blue passionflowers (Passiflora caerulea) and their Japanese name is "clock plant" after the appearance. 

Blue passionflower (Passiflora caerulea)　時計草（トケイソウ）

Blue Passionflower (Passiflora Caerulea) 時計草（トケイソウ）

Japanese follows English. 英語の後に日本語が続きます。

The plant is supposed to flower in April and May, but it still has several flowers. They're blue passionflowers (Passiflora caerulea). Their Japanese name is "clock plant" after the appearance, which resembles a clock.  

Blue passionflower　時計草

Passiflora caerulea　トケイソウ

Passiflora Caerulea (Blue Passionflower) 時計草（トケイソウ）

Japanese follows English. 英語の後に日本語が続きます。

These are Passiflora caerulea or blue passionflowers. These clock-like flowers always intrigue me⌚!

Passiflora caerulea - it's ten past ten!　時計草 - 10時10分です！

Blue passionflower　トケイソウ

Passiflora Caerulea (Bluecrown Passionflower) 時計草（トケイソウ）

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Tick tock, tick tock.... It's 10:15:40 a.m... It looks like a clock🕙, isn't it? This is Passiflora caerulea or more commonly bluecrown passionflower. I've wanted to see the flower closely so much for the last couple of years because the plant in my neighborhood has grown up to several meters tall with all the flowers high up a tree😞. Then, I found this bluecrown passionflower, seemingly with no support (last photo), which means that I was able to take close-up shots!! The flower, especially yellow green stamens and purple stigmas, is beautiful both from the above and from the side!!

In Japan, the bluecrown passionflower is called "clock plant" because of its appearance.  

Passiflora caerulea 時計草

Bluecrown passionflower トケイソウ

Passiflora Caerulea (Blue Passionflower) 時計草（トケイソウ）

Japanese follows English. 英語の後に日本語が続きます。

This is passiflora caerulea or blue passionflower. Last year I was about to believe that the flower was a gingko flower because of the reason you can see in the second to fourth photos....  

Passiflora caerulea 時計草

Ginkgo or Passion Flower - That's the Question イチョウの花、トケイソウの花

Japanese follows English.　英語の後に日本語が続きます。

What's this? A ginkgo flower? To me, it looks like a passiflora caerulea or common passion flower...

It's among ginkgo leaves イチョウの葉の間に発見

The only flower.... これ一つ｡｡｡

Ginkgo tree and fruit 銀杏の実

I couldn't first believe my eyes. It was like a passion flower or "clock flower" in Japanese. I googled to find out what this flower was, but only found that ginkgo flowers, male or female, did not look like this at all.

Ginkgo always reminds me of a former coworker, an American very popular among women. On that day, we came back to the office from a client, finding ginkgo trees with leaves turned into beautiful golden yellow but with no nuts and therefore which didn't stink. This means that all these trees were male. When I said that, he was so amazed, so I went on to ask, "Would you be sad if you had no women around you?" I knew that he thought he was attractive, and I do not like such men.....😁

Raw ginkgo nuts stink, but are delicious once roasted and of course go well with beer, highball, wine and sake😆 Autumn has come with many seasonal foods!!

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近所で見かけました。何の花に見えますか。私には時計草にしか見えません。でもこれはイチョウの木｡｡｡ 家でググったのですが結局分かりませんでした｡｡｡

イチョウといえば臭い｡｡｡ 昔、同僚とオフィスに戻った時のことです。会社の近くにイチョウ並木があり黄金色の花がとてもきれい。全く臭くなかったので何気に「ギンナンがないってことはこの辺の木は全部オスなんですね」と言ったらえらく感動されたので、さらに「メスがいないと寂しいでしょうね」と言ったらどぎまぎしてました。自分はイケテルという自覚が非常に強い方でした😁

秋です。食欲の秋です。ギンナンでチクッといきたいです😆

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