Botanical Name: Sterculia villosa Common Name : Elephant Rope Tree Place : Naugriat, Meghalaya Date : 23.5.17Wiki says .. I am not a botanist, I don’t go in search of plants. I love to know the plants and trees which I am surrounded by. Now when I pass by the trees and flowers with great…
Category: finding flora
Coelogyne Orchids
Botanical Name: Coelogyne Stricta Common Name : Coelogyne Orchids Place : Naugriat, Caves, Meghalaya Date : 23.5.17 Coelogyne is from the family Orchidaceae, distributed across India, China, Indonasia and Fiji islands. They can be found from tropical lowland forests to montane rainforests. A few species grow as terrestrials or even as lithophytes in open, humid habitats. We found many…
Gucci Mushrooms
“The Gucci Mushrooms in the Himalayas”. Tarun Ahuja-Malik – here it is my kind of Gucci!!! So here we are on our way to Kalpa our destination for today. Was reading about the Gucci mushroom after Tarun Ahuja‘ mentioned it. Was very curious to see the honey comb web shaped mushroom which was worth 20…
Spider flower or Clemos.
Botanical Name: Cleomes Common Name : Spider Flower Place : Assam Date : 29.5.17 Spider flowers bloom in full pink and fade to a white by noon.
Seabuckthorn berries
Seabuckthorn Berries. (locally known as ‘Drilbu‘ and ‘Chharma’ in Himachal). Our host Mr.Tandup at Pin Valley insisted on having this tea as soon as we entered his home stay. With reluctance I tasted a sip of it and I was totally an addict from the first sip. It was soothing for the tired limbs after…
White Shaving Brush Tree
Botanical Name: PSEUDOBOMBAX ELLIPTICUM ‘ALBA Common Name : White Shaving Brush Tree Place : Lalbagh, Bengaluru Date : 21.6.17 PSEUDOBOMBAX ELLIPTICUM ‘ALBA’ As I walked along the lotus pond watching a water hen hop from one leaf to another, I spotted this lone flower at eye level from a small tree with just one brach swaying to…
Fennel
Botanical Name: Foeniculum vulgare Common Name : Fennel Place : Home Garden, Jayanagar Date : 17.6.17 Home Garden, Jayanagar 1 st block
Indian Mustard
These are the beauties which made us tolerate SRK and Kajol in DDLJ. The iconic fields of Punjab – "Mustard". Do you guys know the maximum production of mustard in India is from ? Don’t google it up . ;-) Botanical name: Brassica juncea Comman Name : Indian Mustard Family : Brassicaceae) Location : Punjab Date…
Elephant Apple Flower
Dillenia indica, commonly known as is a species of Dillenia native to southeastern Asia, from India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka east to southwestern Cåhina (Yunnan) and Vietnam, and south through Thailand to Malaysia and Indonesia. Botanical Name : Dillenia indica Common Name : elephant apple or chulta, Location : Lalbagh Date : 8.8.18 It is…
Pride of Burma
Botanical Name : Amherstia nobilis Common Name : Pride of Burma Location : Nursery Siddahapura road Date : 21.3.19 Pride of Burma is a tropical tree with exceptionally beautiful flowers. It is also known as the Orchid Tree, a name otherwise reserved for members of the genus Bauhinia. The extravagant flowers are seen hanging from…
Naturally Hema 