Rare flower Brahma Kamalam blooms

Hyderabad: ‘Brahma Kamalam’, the flower of a rare species, which is known to bloom only once in a year, made surprise appearance as three such flowers bloomed at the residence of one Veerababu in Sankarpalli mandal of Ranga Reddy district on Sunday.

The scientific name of this plant is ‘Saussurea obvallata’ and it belongs to the category of night flowering cactus. People turned out in large numbers to see the flowers and started worshipping them, taking it as a miracle.