Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Parrot Flower

My friend e-mailed me this beautiful and very rare flower from Thailand. This is a protected species and not allowed to be exported. This species is known to science as Impatiens Psittacina.
Many people believe this flower is a hoax, but there are numerous scientific texts which will verify its existence. The plant gets big but the flowers don't! It reaches a height of 6 feet and is not a small garden impatiens like what we have in our local nursery! The plant looks like a very bad garden weed with beautiful flowers.

What a lovely flower!

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9 comments:

  1. LeighJune 12, 2009 at 7:54 AM

    Beautiful!

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  2. LizaJune 13, 2009 at 3:39 AM

    Very unique and beautiful. Gusto ko rin ng ganyang plant. :)

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  3. TetchaJune 19, 2009 at 10:20 PM

    very nice! This is the first time I heard about this parrot flower. By the way, I have an award for you.

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  4. UnknownJune 24, 2009 at 2:29 PM

    its lovely indeed and rare

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  5. UnknownJune 29, 2009 at 7:27 PM

    So...so pretty :)

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  6. Gorgeous MUMJune 30, 2009 at 9:11 PM

    Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom...like our dearest FRIENDS!

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  7. JonaBQJuly 9, 2009 at 9:51 PM

    wow! i would like to have such plant in our garden too! i wonder if it will grow here in the philippines?

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  8. singapore floristJanuary 19, 2011 at 2:54 AM

    Very beautiful, although the name is quite funny but I love it. Is it one of the types of orchid flowers?

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  9. singapore floristJanuary 19, 2011 at 3:09 AM

    wow it such an optical illusion.

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