Wonderful effort and a lot of work that you do for this event... thanks from me/ myself and the rest of the gang
usha di On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Satish Phadke <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >> =========== >> >> -- >> >> >> >> > > -- Usha di =========== --
