Very interesting fact Madhuri Ji .... This a nice example of photoperiodism Tanay
On 6 January 2012 01:38, Rathinasabapathy Bhuvaragasamy <[email protected]>wrote: > Good catch Mam. > > Regards, > BRS > > On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Madhuri Raut <[email protected]> wrote: > >> April 2011 >> Maranta zebrina >> Family Marantaceae >> I have this plant in 4 pots for many years and none ever flowered, in >> fact I thought it never flowers. Due to some plumbing work in my society in >> Jan 2011 which went on for quite sometime I had to unwillingly shift the >> pots of this plant to an area in my garden without any shade . One day in >> April I suddenly saw this woody looking whorled spike with 2 violet blue >> petal like flowers. It gave me immense joy as I never knew that this plant >> flowers and that too has such an unusual and beautiful wavy spike. It was a >> moment I will never forget. Gradually all the flowers bloomed in the spike. >> -- >> Regards >> Dr.Bhagyashri Ranade >> > > > > -- > B. Rathinasabapathy > Project Co-ordinator > Nilgiri Biosphere Nature Park > 1388, Avinashi Road > Peelamedu > Coimbatore-641004 > > <http://mail.google.com/subscribe.mhtml> > > > > -- *Tanay Bose* Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant. Department of Botany. University of British Columbia . 3529-6270 University Blvd. Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 (Canada) Phone: 778-323-4036 (Mobile) 604-822-2019 (Lab) 604-822-6089 (Fax) [email protected] *Webpages:* http://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/mberbee.html http://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/gradstud.html https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/
