Dear Pankaj ji, Wish you and all members a very Happy and Prosperous New Year. Very interesting orchid. Thanks for sharing. Mani.
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]>wrote: > Thanks a lot Garg sir for your compliments. > Pankaj > > > On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 4:32 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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) > > > > > > > > -- > *********************************************** > "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 >
