Beautiful Ashwini Ji, We had seen this near Churdhar, in profuse flowering....!!
On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 10:01 AM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > You also bring the beauty of the place live. Thanks, Anurag ji. > > On 20 May 2017 6:43 p.m., "Ashwini Bhatia" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I trekked to Kareri lake on Monday with friends and was glad to find the >> pink rhododendron, our state flower. I have been looking for this for a >> while and found hundreds of them growing near the lake at 3300m. I saw the >> first shrub at about 2900m. >> >> I am very familiar with *R. arboreum* and noticed the differences >> between that and *R. campanulatum*; >> >> The first is a tree that can sometime be quite large while the second is >> a shrub. >> The first has more elongated leaves with silvery undersides, the second >> more oval with woolly brown undersides. >> The first has no discernible aroma, the second has a delicate pleasing >> smell. >> The maturing ovaries are hairy on the first and smooth on the second. >> The first has red flowers but can sometime bear light pink flowers while >> the second has nearly white to dark pink flowers. >> >> *Rhododendron campanulatum* >> Kareri Lake and just below >> 2900-3300m >> 15-16 May 2017 >> >> >> Thanks. >> Ashwini >> >> >> -- >> 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 https://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 https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
