Very lovely..lively illustration as usual Pankaj :)
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Mohina Macker <[email protected]>wrote: > 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. 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