Impatiens psittacina
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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.