This season, you must to go to Mandya district(Karnataka) and watch these blooms along streamsides and along the Vishveshwaraya canal or around Nanjangud temple along the banks of the kaveri river. Striking colours.Unmistakably Salix tetrasperma inflorescense.from 500 metres away you can make it out.
On Jan 10, 10:39 pm, Anush Shetty <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you all. > > Attaching few more pics Usha di. > > - > Anush > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 9:58 PM, ushadi Micromini <[email protected] > > > > > wrote: > > Thanks, Gurcharanji... May be just do a week of Salix... very nice and > > useful "family"... we dont seem to have many in Bengal... > > > I wish I could see these... but for my math studies... cant go out ... > > Usha di > > ========== > > > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > > >> Ushadi > >> There are good number of species of Salix in Kashmir (though not S. > >> tetrasperma). This year I am visiting Kashmir in April mainly to capture > >> these in flower. I don't know whether I would be able to catch the most > >> spectacular of all the Salix caprea, the first species to flower in Kashmir > >> as early as late February, producing most fragrant flowers, whose fragrance > >> like Magnolia grandiflora can be felt from several metres. We used to keep > >> twigs of this in flower in flower pots to give fragrance in the room for > >> several days. > > >> -- > >> Dr. Gurcharan Singh > >> Retired Associate Professor > >> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > >> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > >> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > >>http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > >> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Ushadi micromini < > >> [email protected]> wrote: > > >>> spectacular.... > >>> later, can you also take pictures of the leaves, branches, and tree > >>> trunk... > > >>> and canopy... > > >>> sorry I am asking for a whole lot.... > >>> but not seen this in Calcutta.. > >>> the flowers are out of this world and your photo is as I said: > >>> spectacular... > > >>> Usha di > >>> ======= > > >>> On Jan 10, 8:02 pm, Satish Phadke <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > Anush Ji > >>> > Really nice pictures of *Salix tetrasperma*. > >>> > Family : Salicaceae > > >>> > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Anush Shetty <[email protected] > >>> >wrote: > > >>> > > Indian Willow tree in full bloom in Lalbagh, Bangalore > > >>> > > These pics were taken on Jan 7th, 2012. > > >>> > > - > >>> > > Anush > > >>> > -- > >>> > Dr Satish Phadke > > > -- > > Usha di > > =========== > > > > IMG_0905.JPG > 635KViewDownload > > IMG_0913.JPG > 537KViewDownload > > IMG_0918.JPG > 332KViewDownload
