Thank you Dr Rawat \ was it in a container ort on open soil as ground cover?
usha di On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 3:11 PM, D.S Rawat <[email protected]>wrote: > Nice pic and story! > I also captured it at Naini Tal Uttarakhand and thus attaching one pic. > DSRawat Pantnagar > > > On Tuesday, January 15, 2013 12:07:21 PM UTC+5:30, JM Garg wrote: > >> A great capture & details, Ushadi. >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Ushadi Micromini <[email protected]> >> Date: 14 January 2013 22:22 >> Subject: [itpmods:6238] Flora Picture of the year 2012 UD >> To: Satish Phadke <[email protected]>, [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]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to itpmods+u...@** >> googlegroups.com. >> >> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** >> group/itpmods?hl=en-GB <http://groups.google.com/group/itpmods?hl=en-GB>. >> >> >> >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**User:Jmgarg1<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<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<http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix>(more >> than 2030 members & 1,42,000 messages on 31/12/12) or Efloraofindia >> website: >> https://sites.google.com/site/**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 =========== --
