Scientific name for this parrot flower?

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  1. joannejustice

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    This plant is named as parrot flower pictured in Thailand. Does anyone know it's scientific name? Thank you..
     
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    Joanne, I copied this from the site "Exotic Rainforest". Take a look and see if this is what your looking for. Impatiens psittacina Hook.f. Evidently they don't let it out of the country.
    Known on the Internet as
    The Rare Thailand Parrot Flower.
    We do have something similar here in the States. It is call Impatiens grandaflora, or Poor man's Orchid. I wouldn't recommend planting it tho...It goes nuts and spreads all over - much like Kudzu.
    Barb
     
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    Thank you so much to all who replied. It is exactly that which I was looking for. It is Impatiens psittacina. I had trouble attaching the bitmap iamge.
     
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