Exotic Beauty (96) : African Spiral Ginger
Last year 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 : Afrikaanse spiraalgember
German name : Spiral Ingwer
Latin name : Costus afer
Country of origin : Senegal, Nigeria
Coquitte 16. Januar 2017, 15:32
Que maravillas, son hermosas y muchas desconocidas para mi. Saludos.Charly Charity 13. Januar 2017, 12:48
Ich staune immer wieder ;-))*WUNDERVOLL!*****
lg Dagmar
NaturPur22 10. Januar 2017, 20:38
Wunderbare Fotoarbeit! LG AngelikaMirjam Burer 9. Januar 2017, 19:50
the whole series is most impressive and of a great quality in light and colours Marklg
carinart 9. Januar 2017, 12:27
Jedes Mal sind deine herrlichen Blüten eine Augenweide! Die Wahl fällt immer schwer ...L.G. Karin
Natalie16 8. Januar 2017, 21:20
Marvelous!BR, Natalie
Luigi Scorsino 8. Januar 2017, 12:29
Simply beautiful, brilliant colors and well presented !Regards.
luigi
Mauro Stradotto 7. Januar 2017, 23:41
Stupenda fotografia della tua natura.Buona domenica e buon anno,
Mauro
Sigrid E 7. Januar 2017, 19:27
Diese exotische Schönheit hast du perfekt ins rechte Licht gesetzt!LG Sigrid
Traudel Clemens 7. Januar 2017, 18:36
Die Blüten sind in bester Klarheit fotografiert. Das tolle Licht ist besonders hervorzuheben.LG Traudel
Magdalenia 7. Januar 2017, 18:09
Un cliché magnifique et d'une excellente netteté de cette ravissante fleur !Amitiés,
Magdalenia
Gisela Aul 7. Januar 2017, 17:38
wonderful flowerlg. Gisela
Claudio Micheli 7. Januar 2017, 16:22
Splendida presentazione.Ciao
Heinz Janovsky 7. Januar 2017, 9:13
Prächtige Blüte, sehr gekonnt in Szene gesetzt.Gruß Heinz
rolvin 7. Januar 2017, 0:03
Exotic plants already have a special magic, simply wonderful what nature can do.Great image!
Roland