Exotic Beauty (58) : Scarlet-flowered banana
The past 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 an 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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Dutch name : Vuurrode bananenplant
German name : Rote Zwergbanane
Latin name : Musa uranoscopus
Country of origin : Indochina
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These beautiful red bananas are only edible by animals because the fruit is full of hard seeds that are indigestible for humans.
carinart 23/02/2013 11:56
Eine wunderschöne exotische Pflanze in einer ausgezeichneten Aufnahme!L.G. Karin
hollymerry 21/02/2013 20:58
really a beauty, I like the colour tooregards, monica
Deryck 20/02/2013 19:59
what a beautiful and striking flower. Stunning Mark and interesting as usualDeryck
Lawson McCulloch 19/02/2013 21:28
Gorgeous light falling on this beautiful flower.best wishes,
Lawson
Vera Shulga 19/02/2013 17:42
beautiful image with nice play of light and shadowswonderful light and colors, nice sharpness
Vera
A. Lötscher -Bergjäger- 19/02/2013 16:36
Ein wunderschönes Bild von dieser exotischen Pflanze!LG Bergjäger
EdelS 19/02/2013 15:36
Die Farben einfach traumhaft wie die Schärfe auch! Liebe Grüße EdelAngelika El. 19/02/2013 13:53
Ganz, ganz wunderbar! Die FArben, das Licht, die Schärfe und der Bildschnitt - einfach ein Genuss!!!
LG!
Angelika
Claudio Micheli 19/02/2013 13:10
...fantastica!Ciao
Vitória Castelo Santos 19/02/2013 13:01
Wunderbar, eine feine Aufnahme.LG Vitoria
Gisèle W. 19/02/2013 13:00
Prachtig, het licht en de kleuren perfekt op elkaar afgestemd !!!Groetjes, Gisèle
Alfred Schultz 19/02/2013 12:58
I like my bananas curved and yellow.So, the animals and the fc alike don't
have to worry.
Greetings - A.
Christine Ge. 19/02/2013 10:39
Sie sieht wunderschön aus.Gruß Tina
Norbert Kappenstein 19/02/2013 10:24
Fein das Licht, wieder eine sehr schöne Aufnahme zeigst Du hier.LG Norbert
ARTURO MEDINA 19/02/2013 10:20
Fantástica photo y realizaciónUn saludo