Very beautiful photographs of an eye catching plant with nice description. Thanks for posting.
On Saturday, September 21, 2013 12:48:57 AM UTC-7, D.S Rawat wrote: > > *Cyananthus microphyllus* Edgew. (Campanulaceae) is a common but > beautiful alpine herb. Many times thousands of flowers can be seen on the > ground surface making a floral carpet in alpine zones. > > Species of this genus *Cyananthus* develop hirsute hairs on the outer > surface of calyx which, in addition to other role (not known to me) also > meant for repelling insects since developing fruits are contained in > persistent calyx. In the fourth picture a caterpillar is visible eating > only soft succulent a nd glabrous corolla part leaving hairy calyx. > > > > Here photographed in Nilkanth valley near Badrinath, Uttarakhand. > > > > 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.
