Fact Check: Does This Image Show ‘Nagapushpa’ That Blooms Once In 36 Years? Here’s The Truth

A picture is doing rounds on social media claiming that it shows the Nagapushpa flower that blooms in the Himalayas once in 36 years.

The post read: पुष्प (फूल) दिखने में तो सुंदर होते ही हैं, उसके साथ-साथ अच्छी ख़ुशबू को भी बिखेरते रहते हैं. फूलों को देखा और उनकी खुशबू ग्रहण करने पर हृदय को बड़ा ही आनंद आता हैं. (English Translation: Flowers are not only beautiful to look at, but along with that they also spread good fragrance. Seeing flowers and smelling them gives great joy to the heart.)

The text embedded on the image read: “नाग-पुष्प” ये फूल 36 साल में एक बार हिमालय पर्वत पर खिलता है । (English Translation:’Nagapushpa’ This flower blooms once in 36 years on the Himalayan mountain.)

Here’s the link to the above post.

FACT CHECK 

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

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 the eastern Himalayas, East Bengal.

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