This is a strange little "plant" parasitizes the tooth pick plant called meswak ... if I remember it... can not grow without it...
but how did it get to the mangrove neighborhood from the high desert of the biblical times??/ Does meswak grow in mangrove areas? usha di ======== On Jan 8, 7:44 pm, Dinesh Valke <dinesh.va...@gmail.com> wrote: > Wonderful golden collage, Prashant ... and many thanks to you and Satish ji > for recounting the memorable trip. > Would like to pass on this credit of showing this strange and beautiful > plant to Shrikant ji; with whom I had been there a week or so earlier. > Regards. > Dinesh > > > > > > > > On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Satish Phadke <drsmpha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks Prashant > > I will always remember those fond memories of our Flower hunting trip. > > I was feeling for a long time that some of the group members should go for > > such visits together. It compliments each other. Somehow we could manage it > > that time. > > How can I forget the Sharbat you served us in the canopy of trees behind > > Vasai fort and some good foodstuff brought by Dinesh ji too. > > Thanks again for reminding me of those memories. > > Satish > > > On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Prashant Awale <pkaw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Dear Friends, > > >> Here i am sharing the photograph of *Cistanche tubulosa* ( Family: > >> Orobanchaceae) > >> as "Flora Picture of the year-2011". > > >> This was photographed at Gorai (at the outskirts of Mumbai). > > >> Regards > >> Prashant > > > -- > > Dr Satish Phadke
