Beauty! And thank you Pankaj ji, for sharing that lovely story. On 28 January 2013 08:11, Dr Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > > > -- Janani Eswar Rooting to Heal www.artyplantz.com www.facebook.com/ArtyPlantz -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
