Beautiful Shots Raman Ji. I tried to grow this plant in my college thrice but not flourished well. Very attractive colors!!!
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Rathinasabapathy Bhuvaragasamy < [email protected]> wrote: > Good set of pictures. Thanks for sharing. > > BRS > > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:18 AM, raman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The mussaenda is an evergreen shrub related to coffee trees and native to >> Asia. It may be a rather small shrub, or large to 30 feet, like a small >> tree. Commercial nurseries often train mussaenda to be tree-like in form >> for landscape use. Their natural habit is to produce many stems and it is >> quite a rambler. It has silky, hairy, soft medium-green leaves. The plant's >> color comes from bracts and not the small, often yellow, white or orange, >> flowers at the center of each bract. This is the same color-producing >> system used by tropicals such heliconia and bougainvillea. Bracts may be >> seen in several colors including rose, white, red, pale pink and some >> mixtures. >> >> 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
