A passion flower
A plant belonging to the family of the Passifloraceae, a family originating from Tropical America and here used as decorative plants. The passion flower gives the idea of a dihedral symmetry of order 3, if you look at the structure of the ovary; but it has a dihedral symmetry of order 5 if you look at the stems and petals.
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From "symmetry and everyday life" (From "XlaTangente")
Flowers (Anthology of images)
Flowers (Symmetry)
Suggestion of symmetry (Symmetry)
