Rude blooms

Lurking in the woods about now are two flowers of ill-repute, named after parts of male anatomy that the Victorians at any rate thought best concealed. On the left is cuckoo pint (=pintle, an archaic term for penis) aka lords-and-ladies, its phallic spadix enveloped in the folds of a delicate green sheath; on the right the early purple orchid rejoices, as Shakespeare mentioned, in 'grosser names' deriving from the testicular form of its double root: dog's stones, dog's cods, cullions or fool's bollocks.

We may blame the internet for spreading obscenity but for our forbears botany seems to have served prurient imaginations just as well.