Thanks, Manoj ji, for the wonderful post.
On 21 April 2014 07:15, Manoj Chandran <[email protected]> wrote: > The close up photographs reveal the barbs on the petiole of the leaves, > which is the main character of Rhododendron barbatum. However, these barbs > fall off later on and during certain season, no barbs are found. The > flowers are scarlet to orange-red and are smaller than that of R.arboreum. > The bark peels off and is whitish like R.campanulatum. One of the > photograph shows R.barbatum (lighter green at the centre) growing among > R.arboreum.The stems are semi-prostrate due to snowfall and hence the tree > achieves a shrubby appearance like R.campanulatum. > > R.barbatum is usually found in narrow stretch in the temperate to > sub-alpine zone in the transition zone of R.arboreum and R.campanulatum. It > is found at Tungnath,Dhakuri, Khalia in Munsyari at around 2800-3000m > altitudes. > > > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- With regards, J.M.Garg 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna'<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> The whole world uses my Image Resource<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). 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<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the world- around 2300 members & 1,85,250 messages on 28/2/14) or Efloraofindia website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species database of more than 9500 species & 1,90,000 images). Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia<https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia> . 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/d/optout.
