Garg sir beautiful picture... such a lovely orchid I think all ground orchids in monsoon come with leeches Best regards Smita
On Friday, January 17, 2014 4:29:48 PM UTC+5:30, JM Garg wrote: > > Dear friends, > Possibly this is my first post after a dry year of 2013 (mainly because of > paucity of time due to different priorities). It is Habenaria > longicorniculata<https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/m---z/o/orchidaceae/habenaria/habenaria-longicorniculata> > as I > knew it from the first glance while moving on a narrow road through > BhadraWildlife Sanctuary on way to > Kemmanagundi from Chikmaglur in Oct'2013. > > I requested the driver to stop the vehicle & hurriedly got down to click > it. I didn't bother for anything else. I also took the pictures of the > basal leaves and many other pictures from many angles, a few while almost > sitting. After the photo session with this & a few other flowering herbs > was over I returned back to the vehicle. As we moved a bit i could see > blood on my pants. As I looked further I saw many leaches on my legs, shirt > & on the vehicle. It was as if it was a great attack of leeches. I quickly > removed them by heavily shaking my hands & legs one by one. Finally all of > them (around six) were gone but not without leaving their temporary scars. > I knew they did no long term harm. One of them was later found to have left > a mark on the toes of my daughter. > > It certainly was a great encounter with Habenaria > longicorniculata<https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/m---z/o/orchidaceae/habenaria/habenaria-longicorniculata> > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species*& > eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged > alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki > /Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them for free as per Creative > Commons license attached with each image. > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group (largest in the > world): http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 2200 > members & 1,78,400 messages on 31/12/13) or Efloraofindia website: https > ://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more > than 9000 species & 1,80, 000 images). > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > -- 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.
