860 — Number of the plant
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 Asteridae
► Order Gentianales
► Family Apocynaceae - Dogbane family
► Genus Aganosma (Blume) G. Don, Gen. Hist.
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Common names
Description
Small fragrant white salverform flower with five overlapping petal-like lobes forming a pinwheel and a narrow yellow tube arising from a prominent star-shaped calyx; borne in large rounded terminal corymbs. A moderately large vine with red-veined leaves.
The star is always a promise of the Light to come; the star changes into a sun when there is the descent of the Light.
Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library in 30 Volumes. - Volume 23. - Letters on Yoga.-P.2-3.- P.958
