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. Februar 2013, 11:56
Eine wunderschöne exotische Pflanze in einer ausgezeichneten Aufnahme!L.G. Karin
hollymerry 21. Februar 2013, 20:58
really a beauty, I like the colour tooregards, monica
Deryck 20. Februar 2013, 19:59
what a beautiful and striking flower. Stunning Mark and interesting as usualDeryck
Lawson McCulloch 19. Februar 2013, 21:28
Gorgeous light falling on this beautiful flower.best wishes,
Lawson
Vera Shulga 19. Februar 2013, 17:42
beautiful image with nice play of light and shadowswonderful light and colors, nice sharpness
Vera
A. Lötscher -Bergjäger- 19. Februar 2013, 16:36
Ein wunderschönes Bild von dieser exotischen Pflanze!LG Bergjäger
EdelS 19. Februar 2013, 15:36
Die Farben einfach traumhaft wie die Schärfe auch! Liebe Grüße EdelAngelika El. 19. Februar 2013, 13:53
Ganz, ganz wunderbar! Die FArben, das Licht, die Schärfe und der Bildschnitt - einfach ein Genuss!!!
LG!
Angelika
Claudio Micheli 19. Februar 2013, 13:10
...fantastica!Ciao
Vitória Castelo Santos 19. Februar 2013, 13:01
Wunderbar, eine feine Aufnahme.LG Vitoria
Gisèle W. 19. Februar 2013, 13:00
Prachtig, het licht en de kleuren perfekt op elkaar afgestemd !!!Groetjes, Gisèle
Alfred Schultz 19. Februar 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. Februar 2013, 10:39
Sie sieht wunderschön aus.Gruß Tina
Norbert Kappenstein 19. Februar 2013, 10:24
Fein das Licht, wieder eine sehr schöne Aufnahme zeigst Du hier.LG Norbert
ARTURO MEDINA 19. Februar 2013, 10:20
Fantástica photo y realizaciónUn saludo