Thanks. It doesn't matter if it flowers in cooler season. It means water needs to be stopped after monsoon for it to flower.
On Wednesday, January 16, 2013, Ushadi Micromini wrote: > Dear Surajit, Garg ji, Ritesh, Prasad, Vijay and Pankaj > > Thanks for liking the picture and its life story > > Pankaj... there was not any special reason... not to submit it... > was waiting to see the flowers, then to id it ..(on my own !!) > and I get lazy about having to reduce the pixel size of each pic that I > want to submit.. etc etc ... > AND IT FLOWERS IN COOLER TEMP... in addition to its xeriscaping > potential... it grows weedy in California, remember? :) > > Usha di > > On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:07 PM, J.M. Garg > <[email protected]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '[email protected]');> > > wrote: > >> A great capture & details, Ushadi. >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Ushadi Micromini <[email protected] <javascript:_e({}, >> 'cvml', '[email protected]');>> >> Date: 14 January 2013 22:22 >> Subject: [itpmods:6238] Flora Picture of the year 2012 UD >> To: Satish Phadke <[email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', >> '[email protected]');>>, [email protected] <javascript:_e({}, >> 'cvml', '[email protected]');> >> >> >> Dear all and Satish : >> here is my flora picture of the year picture and its story : >> >> This is an example of endurance and perseverance along with zeal to >> survive in the plant, and I love it for it. >> >> I bought it in hanging planter , nursery man said it would flower in a >> couple of weeks just water it and put in sunny location. I did , and >> it flourished, growing longer and greener…. Summer came and went, so did a >> winter, and then spring, summer and fall…. Nary a bud nor a flower…. And I >> thought it was a dud… ready to discard it because my balcony can only >> take so much green trailings… and then it got very very cold winter of >> 2012, I thought it would surely die of the bitter winds and frigid fog. >> Then one morning 3 or 4 of these flowers popped up, gladdening the hearts >> of the beholders…. Including mine. >> >> >> >> Not only had this plant survived the 105 degrees Farenheit temp in >> summer, the typhoons, and monsoons and then the cold… it has blossomed….. >> just like some late bloomer kid in a classroom, surprising everyone. >> >> I then went looking for its proper name, found it… Its really an iceplant >> …. A ground cover that forms tight layer described as a mat… originating >> in South Africa, its adapted in many distant lands… in California its known >> to escape and become weedy. The botanical name is Aptenia cordifolia >> of Family Aizoaceae. Colloquially known as heart-leafed iceplant. >> >> >> In 2013, this winter its back reveling in the cold... best survivor I >> know. >> >> >> >> Usha di >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Usha di >> =========== >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "ITPmods" group. >> To post to this group, send an email to >> [email protected]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', >> '[email protected]');> >> . >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', >> 'itpmods%[email protected]');>. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/itpmods?hl=en-GB. >> >> >> >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 >> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >> The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species*& >> eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged >> alphabetically & place-wise): >> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use >> them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. >> For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, >> please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: >> http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 2030 members & >> 1,42,000 messages on 31/12/12) or Efloraofindia website: >> efloraofindia<https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with >> a species database of more than 7500 species). >> Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of >> India'. >> > > > > -- > Usha di > =========== > -- *********************************************************************** "Taxonomists getting Extinct and Species Data Deficient !!" Pankaj Kumar, Ph.D. Conservation Officer Office: Orchid Conservation Section Flora Conservation Department Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden (KFBG) Corporation Lam Kam Road, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong. Residence: 151, 1st Floor, Tai Om Tsuen Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong. email: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Phone: +852 2483 7128 (office - 8:30am to 5:00pm); +852 9436 6251 (mobile). Fax: +852 2483 7194* * * * * --
