Very nice
On 31 January 2014 04:27, Nidhan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Very beautiful upload Viplav Ji..thanks.. > > > On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 2:35 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> *Duabanga grandiflora* is a rarity in Mumbai and, so far as I know, its >> occurrence in the city is limited to three individuals in a couple of >> curiously contrived fragments within the forested habitat of Borivali >> National Park - two handsome trees near the Gandhi Memorial on Gandhi >> Tekri, and a six-foot sapling in the Krishnagiri Nisarg Parichay Udyan >> (inaugurated last month on the 5th of December, 2013). >> >> The flowers bloom well after sunset and a morning visitor invariably runs >> into a fresh harvest of snowy stamens carpeting the floor. Surviving the >> night are vacant calyces with a protruding style, and a few hung over, >> flaccid stamens and petals on the verge of collapse. >> >> Since the flowering happens to coincide with the 66th death anniversary >> of Mahatma Gandhi today, I've also included a characteristic anecdote on >> his relationship with plants - Our Brethren the Trees - by Madeleine Slade >> (better known as Miraben) with a postscript by Gandhi. It appeared in Young >> India in the issue dated 5 December 1929, and the Gujarati version - આપણાં >> વૃક્ષ ભાઈબહેનો - was published later in Navajivan on the 12th of January, >> 1930. >> >> All photographs were taken yesterday. Have scanned the last two files >> from the original back issues of Young India and Navajivan. >> >> Best wishes, Viplav >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > > > -- > Regards, > > Dr. Nidhan Singh > Assistant Professor > Department of Botany > I.B. (PG) College > Panipat-132103 Haryana > Ph.: 09416371227 > > -- > 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. > -- SANTHOSH ------------------------------------------ Dr. E.S. Santhosh Kumar MSc, PhD, FIAT, FLS (on leave ) Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute, Palode Thiruvananthapuram-695562 Kerala India www.drsanthosh.wetpaint.com Presently working for the British Aerospace, Riyadh, KSA NB: Please consider your environmental responsibility! Ask yourself before printing this email !!! -- 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.
