Images Dated 2009 October

626 - Palms in the Botanic Garden at Rio Janeiro

626 - Palms in the Botanic Garden at Rio Janeiro. The Organ mountains appear in the back ground

© RBG KEW

18th Century, Brazil, Marianne North, Mountains, Oil, Painting, Palms, Victorian

Aristolochia grandiflora

Aristolochia grandiflora (pelican flower). Pelican flower produces enormous trumpet-shaped flowers, which smell of rotting meat and attract flies and wasps as its pollinators. Family:
Aristolochiaceae

© RBG KEW

Aristolochia, Aristolochia Grandiflora, Aristolochiaceae, Flower, Large Flower, Odour, Pelican, Plant Portrait, Princess Of Wales Conservatory, Rbg Kew, Rotten, Rotting, Smell, Tropical