(and sometimes the beast!)

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6.3.11

TROPICAL RED CLOAK - WEAR IT OR NOT

I had always thought this beautiful plant was just another colour in the Justicia family which includes the beautiful Golden Candle, a very similar but apparently quite different plant.  This is a tropical plant called Megaskepasma erythrochlamys Lindau or Brazilian Red Cloak. Wearing this cloak in the tropics would be eye catching.