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Blakea hirsuta
Blakea hirsuta is native to Ecuador and Peru, where it grows in humid evergreen forests of the low Andean foothills. The flowers are produced singly or in small groups near the ends of young stems, each composed of six thick, pale pink tepals surrounding a ribbed, button-like stamen crown that transitions from pink to deep purple as the anthers mature. The outer calyx is fleshy, lobed, and covered in bristles with small glands, and persists around the fleshy berry that follows flowering. Photographed in eastern Ecuador.