Nice Catch Dinesh. Regards Prashant On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 11:57 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote:
> Dear friends, > > Attached (cropped) photos are of one of the rare rose found in the high > altitude wilderness of southern and central Western Ghats ... most > probably endemic. > *Rosa leschenaultiana* Red. & Thory ex. Wight & Arn ... *Rosa sempervirens > * var. *leschenaultiana* Thory (basionym) > Not much is discussed about this plant on the internet. > > Used "Wildflowers of Kodagu" by Dr T Ananda Rao as reference for ID ... he > mentions local name as ಕಾಡು ಗುಲಾಬಿ ಹೂವು *kaadu gulaabi huvu*, translated > would mean: wild briar (OR brier) flower > A Badaga-English dictionary by Paul Hockings, Christiane Pilot-Raichoor has > an entry for this plant with English names as Nilgiri cluster-rose, Nilgiri > dog-rose. > > Will be glad to know the Tamil name of this plant OR the local name used > by people of Nilgiri ... would it be *semmati* OR *cemmati* ? > > > Date/Time : March 30, 2011 at 5.59pm IST > Location Place : outskirts of Madikeri town, Karnataka ... 12.450505, > 75.711958 on Google maps <http://goo.gl/maps/9b5F> > Altitude : 3606 ft (above mean sea level) > > > Regards. > Dinesh > > > PS: Please bear with the quality of photos ... all the 3 days at Coorg were > overcast. >
