Mansoa alliacea

Bejuco de Ajo, Garlic Vine, Wild Garlic

Message of the Flower

Collective Emotions Open to the Divine

The Mother’s Comment

Crowds responding to the impulsion coming from the Divine. An event that marks the great stages of terrestrial life.

Spiritual Message by the Mother/ Quotes by Sri Aurobindo

Emotion is an excellent and indispensable thing in human nature, in spite of all its shortcomings and dangers… But our aim is to go beyond mental ideas into the light of the supramental Truth, which exists not by ideative thought but by direct vision and identity. In the same way our aim is to go beyond emotion to the height and depth and intensity of the Divine Love and there feel through the inner psychic heart an inexhaustible oneness with the Divine which the spasmodic leapings of the vital emotions cannot reach or experience.

Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II: Divine Love, Psychic Love and Human Love

Emotion is a good element in Yoga; but emotional desire becomes easily a cause of perturbation and an obstacle.

Turn your emotions towards the Divine, aspire for their purification; they will then become a help on the way and no longer a cause of suffering.

Not to kill emotion, but to turn it towards the Divine is the right way of the Yoga.

But it must become pure, founded upon spiritual peace and joy, capable of being transmuted into Ananda. Equality and calm in the mind and vital parts, an intense psychic emotion in the heart can perfectly go together.

Awake by your aspiration the psychic fire in the heart that burns steadily towards the Divine—that is the one way to liberate and fulfil the emotional nature.

Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - II: Bhakti, Devotion, Worship

Colour

Light purple, white

Family

Bignoniaceae

Cultivars

None widely recognized

Flower Size

Medium-sized flowers

Flower Texture

Soft

Number of Petals

Five, typical for the family

Floral Symmetry

Radially symmetrical

Fragrance of Flower

Fragrant, especially in the evening, with a garlic-like smell when leaves are crushed

Leaf Texture

Smooth

Leaf Arrangement

Opposite

Leaf Color

Green

Structural Variation (Shrub or Tree)

Vine

Life Cycle

Perennial

Blooming Period

Varies with climate, often in warmer months

Climate

Tropical to subtropical

Water Requirements

Moderate

Soil Type

Well-drained

Temperature Ranges

Warm, frost-sensitive

Sun or Shade

Prefers full sun to partial shade

Susceptibility to Insects and Diseases

Relatively pest-free; occasional issues with common garden pests

Pollinators

Attracts bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds

Habitat

Native to the Amazon rainforest

Role in the Ecosystem

Provides nectar for pollinators

Ornamental

Popular as an ornamental vine for its beautiful flowers and fragranc

Uses in Other Aspects of Life

Mainly ornamental and medicinal

Endangered Status

Not listed as endangered