Chirita ‘Walkerae’ bloom, photographed in the conservatory at the U.S. Botanic Garden this afternoon. Doesn’t the tubular part of the flower look like the torso and leg of a green lizard?!
Learn more about the genus Chirita from the site below by John Boggan from the Smithsonian Institute.
http://www.gesneriads.ca/genchiri.htm
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