Color Christ's Thorn Plant

Christ's Thorn, branch  in  flower  and  a  separate 
flower; branch  in  fruit - the  fruit  has  a  broad  thin
  brim. Click on image to download the largest file size.

Description of Botanical Coloring Page: Bramble, Brier, Thistle, Thorn, are represented by nine Hebrew words in the Old Testament,  and  three  Greek  words  in  the  NewTestament.  Some  of  these  may  refer  to  particular plants ;  but  they  seem  rather to  be  general  terms applied  to  plants  that  may  have  no  connection with  each  other,  except  that  they  all  bear  spines. Such  plants  form  a  considerable  portion  of  the flora  of  Palestine.  The  most  frequent  of  them is  a  knapweed  with  great  spines  proceeding  from the  involucre  of  the  flower  (Centaurea calcitrapa).  Another  is  the  Christ's  thorn,  so  called because  it  is  traditionally  said  to  have  supplied the  materials  of  the  crown  of  thorns  (Pliurau aculeatus),  a  straggling  shrub  with  prickles  at the  base  of  the  leaves,  common  everywhere,  and much  used  for  hedges.  Two  other  spiny  plants are  found  in  the  lower  end  of  the  Jordan  valley, Solanum Sodomoeum,  whose  leaves  and  stems  are covered  with  sliarp  prickles,  and  the  most  formidable of  all,  Zisyphus spina Christi.  Thisproduces  a  roundish  edible fruit,  which  has  given to  it  the  name  of  jujube  tree.  Three  species  of lycium,  shrubs  covered  with  spines,  occur  in Palestine,  and  are  used  for  hedges.  Several species  of  rest-harrow  (Ononis),  some  of  them spiny  like  O. pinosa,  occur  in  Palestine. Hasselquist found one, which he referred to this species, covering whole fields there. 

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