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On 7 February 2012 20:51, surajit koley <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear Sir, > > I do hereby attach images of Ixora sp. for the theme of the month - > Rubiaceae. We call this plant RANGAN in Bengali. > > Besides its ornamental use and its medicinal properties it is also a host > plant of the Monkey Puzzle (Rathinda amor) butterfly. I also attach two > photos featuring the butterfly one of which displays an egg (the white spot > in the middle of the inflorescence) of the butterfly. > > I would also like to add that Mr. Haneesh KM of 'ButterflyIndia' > (facebook) group helped me identify the egg of the same butterfly in the > related photograph. Further, mango trees are also host of this butterfly. > > Species : Ixora sp. ( Ixora coccinea ? ) > Butterfly species : Rathinda amor ( > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rathinda_amor) > Date : 07/02/2012 & 17/11/2011 (showing butterfly) > Place : Gobra (Hooghly District), West Bengal > Habit : Shrub > Habitat : Garden > > Thank you & Regards > > Surajit Koley > > -- With regards, J.M.Garg ([email protected]) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species* & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1820 members & 1,10,000 messages on 29/2/12) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 6000 species). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'.
