Beautiful pictures Col. Bimal Sarkar ji, Have always enjoyed the sight, howevver, did not know that is is called Bignonia venusta, (Hope I got it right). Thank you once again. Regards Yazdy.
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:06 AM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Forwarding pl. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Col Bimal Sarkar <[email protected]> > Date: 2 February 2011 19:23 > Subject: GOLDEN SHOWER > Dear Friend, > " Probably no plant in the world presents so gorgeous an > appearance as Bignonia venusta( Golden Shower )when it is in full bloom > during Jan-Feb" > This certificate is taken from " SOME BEAUTIFUL INDIAN CLIMBERS > AND SHRUBS ",by N L Bor and M B Raizada.I agree . > I first saw the plant in full bloom at Military Hospital at Dehradun.I have > seen the plant at Pachmarhi,Tezpur and many places at North Bengal.I brought > a sapling from Tezpur to Cooch Behar.It is in full bloom now .Sunbirds visit > the plant for nectar.Attaching two images of the plant.In the second image > male of a Yellowbacked Sunbird is on the flower.You may be familiar with > this type of scene. > Regards > Col (Retd) Bimal Sarkar > Mobile: 9434194942 > > > > > > -- > 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 Creative Commons license 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 or > https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (more than 1550 members & > 64,000 messages on 28/2/11 & with a database of around 4500 species on > 15/12/10) >
