Great upload. Very informative. One can emulate . On Thursday, January 30, 2014 at 2:35:16 PM UTC+5:30, Viplav Gangar 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 > >
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