vara de san josé 7
It is the name given to several species of a family of plants that grows in the forests of Caldas, Valle, Cauca and Putumayo. 2 . In the Christian tradition, St. Joseph is always depicted with a flowered rod in his hand because, it is said that someone mocked him when he discovered that Mary was pregnant but he was not the progenitor, and challenged him: if he had really been an angel, his rod should have blossomed, and so it did. Another tradition says that the flowering of the rod is the miraculous sign with which Heaven indicated to the priests who should be Mary's husband.