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Steve Lucas · 19-10-2006, 02:04 AM

I can only presume this discussion is regarding the email photos that have been traveling the globe since early 2006. The flower is Impatiens psittacina. It was described at the Royal Botanica Garden Kew in 1901. There have been a great number of people claiming these photos are a fraud, a hoax. The flower is quite real. There is now a tour company in Thailand taking people to see it in the wild. the company is Tourdoi and you can find the tour on their website although evertthing is in Thai. I have posted all I can learn about the plant on my own website, the Exotic Rainforest. The Exotic Rainforest is a private botanical garden in NW Arkansas, USA with rare tropical plants. We do not have Impatiens psittacina. It is extremely rare. But you can see many new photos from Thailand of the plant on our site. www.ExoticRainforest.com

Steve Lucas

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Originally Posted by Cereus-validus-...........

Impatiens psittaciana J.D. Hooker

"jils" wrote in message
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i can find the same picture on an impatiens forum, if that helps! see he
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/i...cgi?type=hpgal
the post entitled "parrot flower 2", he
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/l...3225796.html?2
and click on the image link

wrote:
Hi,

I came across a few images of an exotic flower identified as "Parrot
Flower"

You can view those images in at the following links ...

http://www.mahiram.com/gossip/printt...p?t=8832&pp=40

http://www.desitorrents.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=49380

Now, I searched using the keyword "parrot flower" but I am only getting
details about a certain (different) flower called the "Heliconia
humilis / Heliconia psittacorum"

I desperately need details about the flower shown in the images.

Kindly let me know if you have any links or info on the same.

Thanks a lot in advance.