Satish: and DS Rawat : I forgot to ask or mention... so this ground cover has been in India for a few decades at least? my nursery guy had given the impression that it was kind-a recent introduction to the horticulture/ gardening scene!!
if old, then how did it get here? who introduced it?is there any record keeping of such events in India? 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 =========== --
