Thanks for sharing this amazing picture.... Now grasses will save water :) Pankaj
On Thursday, 24 January 2013 16:45:19 UTC+8, D.S Rawat wrote: > > Low temperature is harsh for human life in high altitudes of the Himalaya. > But plants are adapted to survive and flourish there. As seen here in this > picture taken at an altitude of 3800m above sea level near Kedarnath shrine > in Uttarakhand, this grass (*Poa* sp.) growing near a stream is ice-cased > in night. But in the mid day ice will melt and it will live joyfully in > this routine of freezing and thawing in entire autumn till the arrival of > coldest season when a thick blanket of snow will cover it permanently up to > springs. > > DSRawat Pantnagar > --

