Exotic Beauty (36) : Yellow hibiscus
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 : Gele hibiscus
German name : Gelbe Eibisch
Latin name : Hibiscus harwoodii
Country of origin : Hawaii
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Hibiscus can be found in subtropical and tropical regions throughout the world, but this specific yellow species is native only to the isolated islands of Hawaii.
A big thanks to aline64
for the kindly nomination of this picture.
Bernhard Kuhlmann 04/03/2012 14:39
Absolut brilliant in der Schärfe und den Farben !Gruß bernd
Irbenika 01/04/2011 12:19
Wonderfully beautiful flower!!! Soft light and warm colors make the image just fabulous!Irb
Rikki und Winni 06/03/2011 20:03
Absolutly FANTASTIC!!!! What a wonderful picture!Regards
Rikki
Hans-Günther Schöner 18/02/2011 11:56
Deine Fotos sind absolute Topfotos !!
Grandios !
Gruß
Hans-Günther
Halvorsen 17/02/2011 10:24
Stunning!Adele D. Oliver 16/02/2011 1:02
Congratulations, Mark .... so well deserved!!!greetings, Adele
Charly Roggow 14/02/2011 16:58
ganz exzellent aufgenommenLG Charly
Alexandra Diaconescu 14/02/2011 15:54
Beautiful photo!Briepgirl 13/02/2011 23:32
A great macro!!!CsomorLászló 13/02/2011 17:27
Félicitation!amitiés
CsL
EdelS 13/02/2011 16:47
Hallo Mark, das Foto ist ein Traum! Hier stimmt aber auch alles! !00% Qualität und hat den Stern verdient.Liebe Grüße Edel
Denis- 13/02/2011 12:05
Félicitations pour cette macro de très gande qualité !Amicalement
Denis
aline64 13/02/2011 11:57
Bravo Mark, je suis très contente pour cette fleur étoiléeamicalement
Mohr Wilfried 13/02/2011 9:49
Wirkt besonders gut durch den dunklen Hintergrund.Gruß Wilfried
Mark Billiau. 13/02/2011 9:12
@ everybody who voted pro : thank you very much.And of course a special thanks to aline64 for the nomination of this picture.
Mark