Exotic Beauty (66) : Water poppy
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 : Waterpapaver (ook Zuid-Amerikaanse waterlelie genoemd)
German name : Wassermohn
Latin name : Hydrocleys nymphoides
Country of origin : South America
Bernhard Kuhlmann 24/03/2013 10:14
Fantastsch, die gute Qualität !Gruß Bernd
† Ushie Farkas 23/03/2013 2:14
EXCELLENT!!! GrüßeVera Shulga 19/03/2013 21:33
awesome flower!..simple and beautiful..with breaking petals..:-)perfect image!
Jacques BURY 15/03/2013 19:35
*****Amazing colors, light and sharpness.*****Best regards.
Jacques
Herbinaux Daniel 13/03/2013 17:26
Une véritable beauté+++++++
Amitiés
Daniel
Günter Nau 11/03/2013 19:24
Eine wunderbare Serie zeigst du hier mit Deinen exotischen Schönheiten.lg Günter
ritayy 11/03/2013 14:38
great light ! Regards, RitaBernd Brügging 10/03/2013 18:58
Sehr schön in Hinblick auf die Anordnung und der plakativen Farbgebung. Ich bin begeistert!HG
Bernd
Susanne47 10/03/2013 18:19
Wassermohn kannte ich bisher noch nicht, eine sehr schöne Serie mit den exotischen Schönheiten.Grüessli Susanne
Magdalenia 10/03/2013 17:52
Une beauté exotique et délicate !Une vision lumineuse !
Amitiés,
Magdalenia
Inge Stüwe 10/03/2013 7:09
Eine wunderbare Aufnahme, sehr schön ist das "Innenleben" der Blüte zu erkennen.Liebe Grüße
Inge
aline64 09/03/2013 18:50
une belle fleur bien shootéeamicalement
de ceulaer 09/03/2013 11:30
really beautiful picture !br
Vitória Castelo Santos 08/03/2013 21:50
Lovely !!!!!!!!!!!!!!Lawson McCulloch 08/03/2013 20:18
A beautiful shot of a flower that is new to me.best wishes,
Lawson