Gorgeous Catch!! On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Rathinasabapathy Bhuvaragasamy < [email protected]> wrote:
> Nice pictutres Raman Ji. > > BRS > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 2:55 PM, raman <[email protected]>wrote: > >> This tree is the official floral emblem of Hong Kong and it is widely >> cultivated in tropical regions. It is thought to be an accidental hybrid >> between B. purpurea and B. variegata. It was first discovered on the >> seashore in Hong Kong in 1908 and named after Sir Henry Blake, Governor of >> Hong Kong from 1898 to 1903. After the handing back of the colony to China, >> a special award was created to replace the British Imperial honours. The >> award is called the Grand Bauhinia Medal, or GBM for short. A small >> evergreen tree to around 7m tall. The bilobed leaves are dark green and >> shiny, with raised yellowish-green veins. Compared to other Bauhinias, the >> leaves of this one are huge, six to eight inches. The large, orchid-like >> flowers are rich magenta purple with paler veins, and the uppermost petal >> is darker towards the base. Flowers appear from February to November, with >> the peak flowering time in September to October. This bauhinia is sterile >> and rarely produces the large flat seed pods seen on other species. >> >> Raman >> > > > > -- > B. Rathinasabapathy > Project Co-ordinator > Nilgiri Biosphere Nature Park > 1388, Avinashi Road > Peelamedu > Coimbatore-641004 > > <http://mail.google.com/subscribe.mhtml> > > > > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
