Informative post and Beautiful photographs. Thanks Shrikant ji. Regards Prashant
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 5:41 AM, Shrikant Ingalhalikar < [email protected]> wrote: > Flowers of 2 trees that are usually not seen as they bloom at night. Both > trees have colourful and foetid flowers unlike most night blooming plants > that have white and fragrant flowers. > 1. Crescentia alata flowers are borne directly on the trunk right up to > the base. They bloom at 8 pm and emit foul smell to attract pipistrelle > bats. A foetid juice is held in a sac at the bottom of the flowers. The > flowers fall off by dawn. > 2. Barringtonia acutangula flowers are borne on abundant long pendulous > racemes. Flowers open by 8 pm, have strong unpleasant smell and they fall > off by dawn. This tree grows along rivers and fresh water tanks in coastal > areas of western India. The fallen floating flowers form a red carpet on > the water surface early morning which is treat to watch. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
