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Nope, it's not a hoax! But it is very rare!
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The ExoticRainforest does not sell plants.
We do not have this plant in our collection!
Posted here and at the bottom of the page are a few new photos not easily found on the web. Some belong to the Thai tour company Tourdoi and were sent to me in several different emails. Others apparently came from people who have seen the plant in the wild. Since the accompanying text was written in Thai I had no ability to understand the message. But the intent of the photographs was obvious. These photographs show the rare impatiens, Impatiens psittacina, in nature. Tourdoi is a SE Asian tour company serving primarily the Thai population that operates tours in Thailand to see the natural exotic flowers of the country. A check of internet records shows their website receives as many as 30,000 hits per week. Some have claimed on various net boards Tourdoi began this "hoax" to sell tickets. It would seem unwise for an established business to perpetuate a hoax. Besides, most of their clients are the people who already live in Thailand.
If you would enjoy
seeing this plant along with many other exotic Thai flowers contact Tourdoi
directly for
tour information. The plant blooms in October and November.
Be prepared,
the text on their website is in Thai. Look
for the Parrot Flower
photo on their "flower" page and
follow the links. We have no association with Tourdoi.
www.tourdoi.com/general/flower/main_page.htm
When you get to this page:
http://www.tourdoi.com/general/flower/page/015.htm The text next to that photo is in Thai. Translated, you will find the text is a planting guide to the Thai population and is reprinted from the cover of a popular Thai plant magazine.
This is the translation: ชื่ออื่นๆ : ไม่มี Known also under other name: n/a ชื่อวิทยาศาสตร์ : Impatiens psittacina Hk. f. Name of the flower: Impatiens psittacina Hk. f.
ียนนกแก้ว เทียนนกแก้ว ชื่ออื่นๆ : ไม่มี ชื่อวิทยาศาสตร์ : Impatiens psittacina Hk. f. ลักษณะ : เป็นพืชล้มลุก ลำต้นอวบน้ำ สูง 0.5-1.5 เมตร ใบเดี่ยวรูปไข่กว้าง
โคนใบมน ลักษณะดอก สีแดงม่วงแกมแดงบางส่วนเป็นสีชมพู ออกเดี่ยวตามก้านใบ หรือปลายยอด ขนาดดอกกว้าง 2-3 ซม. ยาวประมาณ 5-6 ซม. กลีบรองดอกรูปถ้วยปากบาน ลักษณะดอกดังในภาพ ช่วงเวลาออกดอก ต.ค. - พ.ย. แหล่งที่พบ : ขึ้นตามรอยแตกของเขาหินปูที่มีการสะสมของอินทรีย์สาร พบที่ความสูง 1,500 -1,800 เมตร ประโยชน์ เป็นพืชหายาก สวยงาม ได้ชมแล้วชื่นใจ ดอกนี้ถ่ายที่ ดอยหลวงเชียงดาว 23 ต.ค. ชมภาพทริปขึ้นดอย ชมดอกไม้เฉพาะถิ่น สวยครับ
Appearance: the stem of
the young plant is plump and approx. 0.5-1.5 cm. The leave is green and
broad, the base is a sharp pointed leaf. The rim of the leaf should be
in size 2-4 cm wide and 4-6 cm
Some believe if you can't
easily buy one on the internet it must be a
hoax!
If you don't believe Impatiens psittacina exists
that is your right. But I'm leaving up the
quote for those who
would still like to imply this
flower is a hoax.
It is quite real and many
in Thailand thought it was extremely funny
people in North America were claiming otherwise. If you can read
Thai, I'm told you can actually find comments about this incident on
Thai websites.
To clarify:
The name "Rare Thailand Parrot Flower" accompanied many of the emails forwarded around the internet early in 2006. I simply elected to use the name as it was stated in the email. I first received the email sometime in March or April of 2006. This person also posted another note on the same garden bulletin board implying Tourdoi may have created this "hoax" to get people to take a fraudulent tour. The purpose of the Exotic Rainforest website is to provide information. Our policy about selling plants is clearly posted at several locations on this website. We sell very few. You can read our policy here: What we do and do not offer.
Despite the fact I say several times on
this website I don't have the species, some folks appear to enjoy
sending email asking us to sell them a Parrot Flower plant. Sorry,
we do not have this plant.
I gladly try to answer email questions but email asking to buy
Impatiens psittacina will be ignored.
Steve Lucas
The
Exotic Rainforest is a private botanical garden in NW Arkansas.
It is a rare plant collection.
Some notes about PhotoShop:
In case you are not aware, you cannot "create" a photograph in PhotoShop. It can easily take many months to learn to use the program correctly and it is very expensive to purchase. You can only manipulate a photo in PhotoShop. Ask Adobe! They created PhotoShop. You have to begin with a photograph! Where did all these photographic angles come from? What was the base for the manipulation? The manipulations required to create all these angles would take a major amount of time and effort not counting talent.
The
following photos were forwarded in an email from Thailand. I cannot
vouch for who owns the photographs. These did not
circulate in the email you likely received!
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