It is an amazing sight - a giant flower of a Talipot tree in full bloom at the foot of ‘Kauduwawa Kanda’ at Madampe –Atakalampanna, along the Ratnapura/Embilipitiya Highway.
This photograph was taken by A.K.W. Perera of Kandy last week who says that according to villagers the flower looks like the trunk of an elephant during the early stage of blooming, changing gradually to the shape of a peacock with its tail fanned out.
It is said that the flower blooms only once in a hundred years, while there are also superstitions that it is a bad omen. Can this wonderful product of mother nature be ominous? asks Mr. Perera.
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