Impatiens psittacina

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Impatiens psittacina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Ericales
Family: Balsaminaceae
Genus: Impatiens
Species: I. psittacina
Binomial name
Impatiens psittacina
Hook.f.

A balsam, Impatiens psittacina, or parrot flower, is a very rare impatiens species discovered and identified to science in 1901 by botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker. The specimen grows only in a small region of north Thailand (near Chiang Mai), Burma, and one district of eastern India.

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