Gurcharan ji, beautiful flowers. I have seen sunbirds hovering around these flowers for the nectar. Regards, Mani
On 2/8/12, Prasad Dash <prasad.dash2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Cool capture sir ji. > > Regards > > Prasad > > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Prashant Awale <pkaw...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Good photographs and information. Thanks Gurcharan Singh ji for sharing. >> Regards >> Prashant >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Gurcharan Singh >> <singh...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> *Hamelia patens* Jacq., Enum. syst. pl. 16. 1760 >>> syn: *Hamelia erecta* Jacq. >>> >>> Shrub or small tree, evergreen, up to 3 m tall; leaves in whorls of 4, >>> elliptic, ovate-oblong to ovate, 5-12 cm long, usually glabrous above, >>> glabrous-tomentose beneath, entire, acute or acuminate; flowers almost >>> sessile with 1-2 mm long pedicel, orange to scarlet, 2-3 cm long, in >>> terminal corymbiform compound cymes; calyx lobes minute; corolla tubular, >>> 13-15 mm long, lobes very short; stamens 5, attached to near middle of >>> corolla tube, filaments 3 mm long; fruit a berry, globose to >>> ellipsoid-oblong, 6-8 mm long, finally red. >>> >>> Commonly planted in Delhi. Photographed from Khalsa College, Delhi Ridge >>> and Vikas Puri. >>> >>> -- >>> 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/ >>> >>> >> > > > -- > Prasad Kumar Dash > Ecologist, Odisha, India > email: prasad.dash2...@gmail.com > ph. 09437444241 >
