Thanks for sharing the photos. I will watch out for this rose when I visit Madikeri. Sir, can you give the details of the book "Wildflowers of Kodagu" by Dr T Ananda Rao, you have quoted. I would like to purchase this book.
On Apr 11, 11:27 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. > > P1360193_CROPPED.jpg > 194KViewDownload > > P1360183_CROPPED.jpg > 194KViewDownload
