Is this a picture of ‘cobra flower that takes 36 years to bloom’? Here’s the Fact Check

A picture is doing rounds on social media claiming that it is of cobra flower that takes 36 years to bloom. 

We also found several posts that revered to it as Nagapushpa flower that is found in Himachal Pradesh once in 36 years. 

This is naga push flower in Himachal Pradesh that flowers once in 36 years pic.twitter.com/jq8bsCYr8G

— Madhav 🇮🇳 (@mahesh10816) January 8, 2016

Very rare Nagapushpa found in Himalaya. Via Ranganathan Sridhar Iyengar pic.twitter.com/qSfh24XaEz

— Rohini Bakshi (@RohiniBakshi) August 21, 2015

FACT CHECK 

When NewsMobile fact-checked the post, we found the claim to be false. 

We then investigated the picture with the keywords ‘sea pen’ and found that this picture was taken by Gordon J. Bowbrick. We found the picture on photo.net uploaded by Gordon on October 14, 2013, with the title “sea feather”. 

According to the definition by Marriam Webster, a sea feather is “a gorgonian that branches in a plumelike form; especially: Sea Pen”. 

Encyclopaedia Britannica defines Sea Pen as ” any of the 300 species of the order Pennatulacea, colonial invertebrate marine animals of the class Anthozoa (phylum Cnidaria).”

 

Whereas ‘Nagapushpa’ is a Sanskrit word for Mesua ferrea, an evergreen tree commenting found in the Mountains of eastern Himalayas, East Bengal, Wetland of Assam.

This proves that the viral picture is of a Sea Pen and not any flower. 

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