Exotic Beauty (13) : Philodendron callosum
The past 2 years I made several visits to the conservatories of the National Botanic Garden of Belgium where 10.000 (!) plant and tree species originating from the tropics and the subtropics are growing in the greenhouses over there.
Thanks to the warm and moist climate in the conservatories and the intensive maintenance, it’s really amazing what an immense great variety of exotic flowers from all over the world can be seen there, even in the cold winter season !
Flowers whose natural habitat is situated in the rainforest, the mountain forest, isolated islands, deserts, etc……. Places that most of us will never or seldom visit.
Some of the flowers are very rare, extremely colourful or specially shaped.
Others were introduced in Europe by men and became a cultivated species or ornamental houseplant.
I selected the –to my personal taste- most beautiful flowers that I saw there and made a series of them.
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No English, Dutch or German name exists.
Latin name : Philodendron callosum
Country of origin : Venezuela, Brazil, entire Amazon
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A rather rare species which doesn’t flower often.
L.Javier. Dominguez. 06/04/2010 19:14
Excelente y hermoso macro de esta bella flor exótica muy buena tomaBella Cala
Luis.J. DominguezAyse Nalan Yasin 05/03/2010 18:35
Excellent and fantastic. Perfect shot..Greetings Ayse
Bruno Giovanpietro 05/03/2010 18:02
unglaublisch schönPozer Katalin 27/02/2010 16:44
Great presented, Mark! Splendid work.Hugs
Astrid Buschmann 08/02/2010 18:56
eine wunderschöne Aufnahme dieser kelchartigen Blüte gegen den schwarzen Hintergrund - dadurch wirken die Farben besonders schönLG Astrid
Toni van Weiden 07/02/2010 14:14
XXXL & Very fine Work ! G.Toniwilly ombret 06/02/2010 21:41
superbequelle belle série
compliments
willy ombret
Anca Silvia B. 06/02/2010 19:29
mag ich sehr,lg ancaDie Mohnblumen 06/02/2010 8:29
Ein sehr gelungenes Makro in guten Farben und sehr gutem Schärfeverlauf. Klasse auch der Bildschnitt.LG K-H
Adele D. Oliver 06/02/2010 1:09
So far my favourite in your series .... nothing detracts from this amazing blossom .... so sharp, such striking colours against the dark background. Surprising that it belongs to the Philodendron family.greetings, Adele
Vitória Castelo Santos 05/02/2010 20:32
Wonderful flower !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!greetings
vitoria
Angelika Ritter 05/02/2010 18:18
a great photo.the sharpness is brilliant.
very good work.
bw angie
Angelika El. 05/02/2010 17:51
That's a great work!!! Wonderful colours, good sharpness...
bw
angelika
Jan Rillich 05/02/2010 17:47
very nice pictureJan
Gunther Hasler 05/02/2010 17:29
Eine besonders exotisch wirkende Blüte, Mark und fotografisch sehr wirkungsvoll präsentiert!Gruß, Gunther