Taken in March 2010 in Chennai.
Anthurium andraeanum, Flamingo lily, Tail flower, Painter's palette, Boy Flower, Oil Cloth flower.
Anthurium, pronounced an-THOO-ree-um, are once-seen, never-forgotten flowers. Their unmistakable glossy heart-shaped bright red flower bract (which gives them their popular name of painter's palette) surrounds the true flowers, which are in the form of a spike (or spathe) at the centre. The flowers contain an anguine curved or straight cop (spadix) that sticks up from a big flamboyant and slightly creasy bract like a caudicle. They come in shades of reds, pinks, white, lilac, green and chocolate brown. http://www.flowersofindia.net/
This beauty is very poisonous and the general symptoms of poisoning are blistering, dysphagia (difficulty in swallowing), hoarseness.
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13 comments:
they are very striking. we had the white ones at home. was not aware of them being poisonous. thank you.
like the colours.
Very beautiful
nice picture
Ooops! Shutup Purba.
One track mind!...Purba!...emm!...no wonder it's called boy flower too...LOL
I have touched it and it's not at all hard. :P
they are really on fire
I love the white ones more than red.
But this foto makes me like the red too
This is the first time I have clicked on your photoblog or have you changed the format?
Good pic Nalini
yummy colors :)
Awesome!!
@ Fadila...Thanks for visiting...;)...same format since birth!
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