i must say that this is among the most captivating pictures of a flower i have ever seen. and hats off to your perseverance to capture this flower. once i had also followed a tree Hardwickia binata for its flowering for 4 years it is growing within our city of Chandigarh. it was not difficult but frustrating sometimes as sometimes i reached just after the flowering was over. the problem was trees were very less (4) in number. but as i am writing this all i feel about my effort is just a minuscule addition to botanical recording as its not even that rare....
Alok On Dec 31, 6:44 am, "Shrikant Ingalhalikar" <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear All, > > I have travelled extensively for studying and photographing wild flowers in > the Western Ghats, but this plant alone made me do 10 trips amounting to > 10,000 kms to Goa and adjoining areas in the last 10 years for its flowering > to be witnessed and documented. I found several plants but not in flowers > ever. A fruiting plant was shown to me by Dr. Milind Sardesai in Nov. 2007 > inside Dajipur WLS near Kolhapur. The sanctuary opens on 1st November and > this precious climber flowers just before that. This year I made a reckoning > trek inside Dajipur and to my delight found the climber in buds. Of course I > had to go back yet again after a week and there was the gorgeous profusion of > flowering of this extremely rare climber. The size, beauty and the divine > fragrance of flowers of Clematis smilacifolia surpassed all the > disappointment of my earlier trips. > > Shrikant Ingalhalikar > 12 Varshanand Society > Anandnagar Sinhagad Road > Pune 411 051. > Tel 91 20 2435 0765. > Fax 91 20 2438 9190. > > Clematis.jpg > 380KViewDownload -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "indiantreepix" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en.
