at the book: The Mother. The Spiritual Significance of Flowers.- 1-st Ed. / Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Pondicherry (India).- Singapore: Ho Printing, 2000.- ISBN 81-7058-609-7
Classification
► Division Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
► Class Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
► Subclass Caryophyllidae
► Order Caryophyllales
► Family Cactaceae - Cactus family
Synonyms
Common names
Blade apple (English)
Leaf cactus (English)
Cactus (French)
Péreskie (Fleur de cactus) (French)
Переския (Russian)
Description
Medium-sized cup-shaped pink flower with flat satiny slightly recurved petals and a central tuft of numerous yellow stamens; borne in few-flowered terminal clusters. A shrub or vine with thin sharp spines and fleshy leaves.
Never tell a lie
It is never good to tell a lie, but here its results cannot but be disastrous, for falsehood is the very symbol of that which wants to oppose the divine work of Truth.
The Mother
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To speak always the truth is the highest title of nobility.
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