Pankaj ji Thank you for the lovely illustrations. I was lucky wth these flowers, they had fallen on the forest floor. And many thanks Janani ji, Nidhanji mohina On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Nidhan Singh <[email protected]>wrote:
> Beautiful pictures Mohina Ji...interesting story Pankaj Ji..with very > beautiful illustrations... > > On 1/28/13, Janani Eswar <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > > > > > > > > -- > Regards, > > Dr. Nidhan Singh > Assistant Professor > Department of Botany > I.B. (PG) College > Panipat-132103 Haryana > Ph.: 09416371227 > > -- > > --- > 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. > > > -- --- 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.
