Talk:Rose of Jericho

Text from Anastatica
Below are three paragraphs removed from Anastatica: the first likely refers to Pallenis;  the second I have no clue;  the third likely refers to Anastatica. --Una Smith (talk) 16:07, 3 January 2009 (UTC)


 * 1) In the book Until I Find You by John Irving, the mother of the protagonist Jack is a tattoo artist who often constructs tattoos of the Rose of Jericho. Her tattoos look like the flower, but it depicts a vagina, the petals being the labia.
 * 2) Paul Simon also refers to the Rose of Jericho several times in his Rhythm of the Saints album.
 * 3) Midwives, doulas and childbirth educators often use the Rose of Jericho as a representation of the cervix during labor. When the laboring woman enters active labor water is added to the dried and closed plant.  Over the next several hours the Rose of Jericho will open, as will the womans cervix.

"[T]he second I have no clue" - obviously, Una. Paul Simon mentions Rose of Jericho at least twice on that album, but, by all means, don't bother to verify.