please identify

Discussion in 'Plants: Identification' started by rethafourie@webmail.co.za, Dec 4, 2006.

  1. rethafourie@webmail.co.za

    rethafourie@webmail.co.za Member

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    Polokwane, Limpopo, Republic of South Africa
    I took a picture of this flower at Hoedspruit near the Kruger Park in the north eastern part of South Afriuca. It probably is a plant alien to South Africa and is apparently known as a Lobsters Claw. The pictures of Lobsters Claws on the Internet however look different from the one on the picture. On the pictures on the net, the Lobsters claws also grow from a stem, although this one is hanging. Please help me identify this. I don't want to put the wrong name in the caption for picture in our newspaper.

    Retha Fourie
     

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  2. Nandan Kalbag

    Nandan Kalbag Active Member

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    Location:
    Virar, India
    It is Heliconia rostrata
     

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