beautiful orchid. Reminded me of my phd days when I saw this in Jharkhand for the first time. It was on a thick Sal branch around 20m high from ground. And I was very much amazed by the size of the flower. I was looking from ground so wasnt able to confirm what species it was. Me and my two assistants tried a lot but we failed to reach the plant. I was very much disappointed. We searched for other individuals of this plant around for nearly 6 hours and got tired. At around 4 pm we cam across a small hill and decided to go back to the base camp. I was standing along a huge Sal tree and my assistants moved ahead. They turned around at me to call me and I was like, OH TOMORROW WE WILL COME AGAIN TO SEARCH FOR IT. And one of my driver cum assistant came running towards me. I asked what happened? and he said, "oh cant you see?", I said, "what?".He started laughing. Then I looked at my right hand on the truck, made a circle around it and found this plant in full flower just at the height of my chest on the other side of the trunk!!! I had the biggest blush on my face. Its was so close ..... that I could lick it :)). I took pics and left the plant there, taking one flower. But next day we found a lot of it and then finally we took one plant back to the orchidarium. Later I found this in some other localities also, but comparatively this seems to have become rare these days. I found one plant as close at around 40 kms from the main town of Ranchi. Its very pretty, bright and most probably biggest Dendrobium flowers I have ever seen in wild. Next year, this plant flowered in my garden. But yeah, I was authorized to collect by MoEF so I did as a part of the project. Others should avoid collections of such rare beauties. My collections are now partly at Dehradun with the Forest Department people and mostly at TBGRI, Trivandrum. Here are some of my illustrations of this Orchid. Hope you will like them. Best regards Pankaj
<https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-5CSm3MMBvus/UQXkzyRps6I/AAAAAAAABck/WV-VisX534s/s1600/Dendrobium+formosum.jpg> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-d89NrOWLqX4/UQXk4gcfTeI/AAAAAAAABcs/vDJzpBwJ7NE/s1600/Dendrobium+formosum+%283%29.jpg> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-kq5eAn-suLA/UQXk9KKB87I/AAAAAAAABc0/17jr4KK4fWI/s1600/Dendrobium+formosum+%282%29.jpg> On Saturday, 26 January 2013 21:15:45 UTC+8, mohina macker wrote: > > dendrobium formosum > havelock, andaman islands > three weeks ago > regards > mohina macker > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
