Most amazing flower: Parrot Flower

Impatiens psittacina, or more commonly known as “parrot flower” is a very rare species of balsam that was first discovered in upper Myanmar (then Burma) by A.H. Hildebrand in the late 1890s, and first described by botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker in 1901.

Note that “very rare” phrase, a total opposite of “daily deals.”

It is known to exist naturally in a small region in northern Thailand (near Chiang Mai), Myanmar and in the north-eastern Indian state of Manipur.

Its most striking feature is unquestionably its flowers that looks like a parrot or a cockatoo in flight when looked at from the side.

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