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Exotic Beauty (109) : Gentian Sage

Exotic Beauty (109) : Gentian Sage

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Mark Billiau.

Mark Billiau.


Premium (World), region Antwerp, Belgium

Exotic Beauty (109) : Gentian Sage

The past years I made several visits to the conservatories of the National Botanic Garden of Belgium where 10.000 (!) plant and tree species originating from the tropics and the subtropics are growing in the greenhouses over there.

Thanks to the warm and moist climate in the conservatories and the intensive maintenance, it’s really amazing what an immense great variety of exotic flowers from all over the world can be seen there, even in the cold winter season !
Flowers whose natural habitat is situated in the rainforest, the mountain forest, isolated islands, deserts, etc……. Places that most of us will never or seldom visit.
Some of the flowers are very rare, extremely colourful or specially shaped.
Others were introduced in Europe by men and became a cultivated species or an ornamental houseplant.

I selected the –to my personal taste- most beautiful flowers that I saw there and made a series of them.

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In English also known as spreading sage or blue-flowered sage.
Dutch name : Wilde salie
German name : Enzian-Salbei
Latin name : Salvia patens

Country of origin : Mexico

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Its colour is assumed as the purest and deepest blue of all flowers in the world.

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plants, fungi & lichens flowers exotic beauties nature exotic flowers exotic beauty salvia patens gentian sage spreading sage blue-flowered sage wilde salie enzian-salbei

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