Amherstia nobilis-한강의 꽃

Amherstia nobilis-실거리나무아과

 

 

 

 

 

미얀마 원산으로 Pride of Burma, Orchid tree 라고도 한다.

 

Perhaps the most beautiful of flowering tropical trees, certainly attractive enough to earn the sobriquet Queen of Flowering Trees.

Obscure origins add to the mystique of this noble petite tree. It has only been collected from the wild a couple of times, in the forests

of Burma, leading to its common name Pride of Burma. The tree has compound leaves and a great profusion of large, irregular, yellow-spotted scarlet flowers. The genus is named after Lady Sarah Amherst, who collected plants in Asia in the early Nineteenth century.

Not only is she commemorated in one of the most beautiful of the worlds trees, she also lends her name to Lady Amherst pheasant one of the most elegant birds. The new leaves are produced in flaccid pale tassels that turn purplish before they green and open out. When not in flower, Amherstia looks similar to Saracca, another Asian legume genus. The leaves unfurl in handkerchief fashion like the Brownea and Maniltoa.  New leaf growth is reddish, hangs down at first.

 

참고자료 :  http://toptropicals.com/cgi-bin/garden_catalog/cat.cgi?find=Amherstia bilis&search_op=and&keyword_op=and&language=e&number=10&user=tt&sale=1&first=1

 

스리랑카 (2011.2.8  흐림)