Dear Santanu da,
This plant was posted by you previously and I identified it.
http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix/browse_thread/thread/1e6ba52114686b21/1d6e22788e24e915?hl=en&q=Phlogacanthus+pubinervius+tanay
Reagrds
Tanay
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Pankaj Kumar <sahanipan...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Wow!! I added a pic of these from near Corbet!!
> Pankaj
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Shantanu Bhattacharya
> <shnt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> > The Red Nongmangkha (Phlogacanthus pubinervius) is an evergreen shrub
> which
> > is particularly showy in spring with its dense upright spikes of of
> > brick-red, tubular flowers. The shrub grows up to 3 m tall, with
> 4-angled,
> > grey branches, and drooping leaves. Leaves are inverted lance-shaped,
> 15-25
> > cm long, with a base gradually narrowing into the leaf-stalk. Flowers are
> > braod-tubular, curved, 2-2.5 cm long, 2-lipped, with 5 nearly equal
> petals.
> > Stamens protrude out of the flowers. Sepals are 6-8 mm long, bristly
> haired,
> > bracts 6-12 mm long. Bracts are prominent when the flowers are in bud.
> Fruit
> > is a cylindrical 4-angled capsule, to 4 cm long. Red Nongmangkha is found
> in
> > forests, at altitudes of 200-1700 m, from U.P. to Burma. Flowering:
> > February-March.
> > The bird feeding on nectar is a Silver-eared Mesia.
> > Pic taken near Phuntsholing...Bhutan. March 2010.
> >
> > regards
> > Shantanu :)
> >
> >
> > Shantanu Bhattacharya.
> > B.Sc, M.Sc (Zoology)
> > University of Calcutta.
> > Teaching Faculty.
> > Dept. of Biology.
> > Vivekananda Mission School(ICSE).
> > Joka. Kolkata.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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