Usha di Observing this succulent plant after a long time. I always liked the bright scarlet color of these flowers since my childhood. Very nice pictures. I have added your write-up with the picture to Flora picture 2012<http://indiantreepix.blogspot.in/> .
Dr Satish Phadke On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Ushadi Micromini <[email protected] > wrote: > 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 > =========== > > -- > > > > --
