Thanks Rawat ji for the inspiring line: Hope together we will explore all the flora of India. I like the thought very very much. Regards. Dinesh
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Aarti S. Khale <[email protected]>wrote: > Beautiful pictures of this rare plant. > Aarti > > > On Saturday, August 31, 2013 6:41:34 PM UTC+4, D.S Rawat wrote: >> >> *Meizotropis buteiformis* Voigt [=*Butea minor* Buch.- Ham. ex Baker] of >> Fabaceae family is a less photographed plant. >> >> This genus (*Meizotropis*) has only two species *M.buteiformis* and * >> M.pellita* (posted earlier by me) in the world. Both species occur in >> Uttarakhand in Kumaon division. >> >> *M.buteiformis* is a large leaved shrub with paniculate inflorescence of >> bright red flowers. I captured it near Mangti village in Kali Valley, >> Pithoragarh District. It lies in the route of Kailash-Mansarovar Yatra. >> >> Picture 4 shows the location of plant (red circle) but more interesting >> is the road construction at this place. The entire road is made by cutting >> the hard rock which in picture looks like an open jaw. Though there was >> road but after the natural disaster of 15/16 June 2013 it was blocked near >> Dharchula and to reach to this place we trekked around 30km. >> DSRawat Pantnagar >> > -- > 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]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > 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]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
