Pankaj: :) :) esp the 2nd...
Usha di =========== On Dec 9, 5:54 am, Pankaj Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > Bauhinia × blakeana S. T. Dunn > Family: FABACEAE > One of the hybrids of Bauhinia. It is often called as Hong Kong orchid > tree. It originated in Hong Kong in 1880 and apparently all of the > cultivated trees derive from one Cultivated at the Hong Kong Botanic > Gardens. All Hong Kong cents have image of flower of this plant. I > assume there are only two countries in the world who have hybrid > flowers as their national flower, Singapore with Vanda Miss Joaquim > and Hong Kong with Bauhinia blakeana. > History (WIKI): This tree was discovered in around 1880 near the ruins > of a house on above the shore-line of western Hong Kong island near > Pok Fu Lam and propagated to the formal botanical gardens in > Victoria/Central. It was later named for Sir Henry Blake, British > Governor of Hong Kong, from 1898 to 1903 who was a keen amateur > botanist, by the man who made the first thorough scientific > description of the 'Hong Kong orchid tree' S. T. Dunn, Superintendent > of the Botanical and Forestry Department, who assigned it to the genus > Bauhinia and named it after Blake in his paper of 1908. > > Hope you will like the picture :) Pankaj -- > -- > ********************************************************************** > "Taxonomists getting Extinct and Species Data Deficient !!" > > Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae) > Conservation Officer > > Office: > Flora Conservation Department > Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden (KFBG) Corporation > Lam Kam Road, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong. > > Residence: > 36c, Ng Tung Chai, Lam Tseun > Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong. > > email: [email protected] > [email protected] > [email protected] > Phone: +852 2483 7128 (office - 8:30am to 5:30pm) > +852 9436 6251 (mobile) > > Slide78.JPG > 560KViewDownload > > Slide31.JPG > 679KViewDownload
