Lovely Orchid.. On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 4:50 AM, Ushadi Micromini <[email protected] > wrote:
> PANKAJ > WONDERFUL STORY OF "search and you shall find" kind... > > is this now part of your publications? > what is you fig numger 3? > variations? of what though... > > thanks > usha di > > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 8:11 AM, 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. >> >> >> > > > > -- > Usha di > =========== > > -- > > --- > 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. > > > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology & Horticulture Incharge Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964 -- --- 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.
