Thank, Pankaj ji, Your photographic skills, presentation & dedication is unmatched.
On 31 December 2010 15:41, Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > Wishing you all a very Happy and Prosperous New Year 2011 ahead. > > Regards > Pankaj > > PS: The flower in the picture belongs to a very rare and endemic > orchid of Uttarakhand distributed in Pithoragarh. It is called > Flickingeria hesperis Seidnf.. The most interesting thing about it is, > one plant gives one flower in a year and the flower just blooms for a > single day. This is the type character of Flickingeria and hence it is > often refereed to as One Day Flower Orchid. So one has to be there on > the right day to find it in flowering condition. > > You may consider this as Photo of the Year from myside. > > -- > *********************************************** > "TAXONOMISTS GETTING EXTINCT AND SPECIES DATA DEFICIENT !!" > > > Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae) > Research Associate > Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project > Department of Habitat Ecology > Wildlife Institute of India > Post Box # 18 > Dehradun - 248001, India > -- With regards, J.M.Garg ([email protected]) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species* & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them for free as per liberal licensing conditions attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Google e-group- Efloraofindia: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1475 members & 57,000 messages on 16/12/10 & with a database of around 4400 species on 30/11/10)
