Thanks Garg ji, Prasad ji, Bhagyashree ji, Rathinasabapathy Bhuvaragasamy ji, Tanay ji, Gurcharan Singh ji and Adittya for appreciation. Yes Adittya U R right, this was photogarphed near Gorai Jetty.
In fact i forgot to tell you a small story behind this, This was for the first time i met Dr Satish Phadke ji. He was in Mumbai and had a free day. He just contacted me and then myself, Satish ji and Dinesh decided to go on some Flower sighting trip. That day we had been to Vasai fort (@ outskirts of Mumbai) and then to Gorai. Gorai is very close to famous "Essel World". Apart from other plants, i was bit keen to see "Cistanche tubulosa" and fortunately Dinesh knew about this location. We all were fortunate enough to spot it. While we were photographing this plant, suddenly one Police patrolling jeep stopped near us and started questing us. Seeing our cameras,they probably thought that we are some people from Press and are there to colllect some info/ or to report some thing. When we revelaed our identity, they told us that this place is bit notorious and informed us to be care full. Notorious for many reasons.....better not to comment, destruction of Mangrooves may be one of the reason.. ... It is preferrable to visit this place in small group rather than going alone. This was a memorable trip and spotting of Cistanche tubulosa was icing on the cake...... Thanks for reading.. Regards Prashant On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 12:02 PM, prasad dash <[email protected]>wrote: > One of your best photograph Prashant Sir. This deserve to be one of the > best. > > Regards > > prasad > > > On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 10:28 AM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Wonderful presentation, Prashant ji. >> >> >> On 6 January 2012 00:00, Prashant Awale <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Dear Friends, >>> >>> Here i am sharing the photograph of *Cistanche tubulosa* ( Family: >>> Orobanchaceae) >>> as "Flora Picture of the year-2011". >>> >>> This was photographed at Gorai (at the outskirts of Mumbai). >>> >>> Regards >>> Prashant >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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 Efloraofindia Google e-group: >> http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1760 members & >> 1,00,000 messages on 21/12/11) or Efloraofindia website: >> https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database >> of more than 6000 species). >> Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of >> India'. >> >> > > > -- > Prasad Kumar Dash > Ecologist, Orissa, India > email: [email protected] > ph. 09437444241 >
