Botanical Name: musa velutina Common Name : hairy banana or pink banana Family : Musaceae Place : Lalbagh, Jayanagar Date : 17.6.18 There are always flowers for those who want to see them – Henri Matisse I have been watching this flower almost for a week now. The first shoot of the flower was in a beautiful pink,…
Category: finding flora
Mughal-E-Azam and Punica granatum
Friday night with the Mughals and Madhubala ?. Mughal-E-Azam poster Insaan kisee se duniyaan me Yek baar mohabbat karataa hai Is dard ko lekar jiitaa hai Is dard ko lekar marataa hai…… Those words …. they defined my life to come since I first heard them when I was just twelve. Ahem ! not trying…
Burmese Pink Cassia
Botanical Name : Cassia renigera Common Name : Burmese Pink Cassia Location : Jayanagar 1 st block Date : 12.4.19
The Rain Tree
Botanical Name: Samanea saman Common Name : Rain Tree Place : Lalbagh, Bengaluru Date : 1.7.17 Samanea saman is a species of flowering tree in the pea family, Fabaceae, that is native to the Central and South America. Saman is a wide-canopied tree with a large symmetrical umbrella-shaped crown. It usually reaches a height of 15–25 m (49–82 ft)…
Spanish needles
Botanical Name : Bidans Alba Common Nmae : Spanish Needle Location : Jayanaagar 1 st block Date : 9.9.17
Pitcher plant
Botanical Name : Nepenthes Common Name : Nepenthes Location : Date : Pitcher plants are several different carnivorous plants which have modified leaves known as pitfall traps—a prey-trapping mechanism featuring a deep cavity filled with digestive liquid. The traps of what are considered to be “true” pitcher plants are formed by specialized leaves. The plants…
Aleo Vera
Botanical Name : Aloe Barbadensis Common Name : Aloe Vera Locaition : lalbagh Date : 9.7.17 Aloe vera is a stemless short-stemmed plant growing to 60–100 cm tall, spreading by offsets. The leaves are thick and fleshy, green to grey-green. The flowers are produced in summer on a spike up to 90 cms tall, each…
Cockspur Coral Tree
Botanical Name : Erythrina crista-galli Common Name : Cockspur Coral Tree Location : lalbagh Date : 12.4.2018 Tree height : 5 ft to 27 ftFruit : The tree’s fruit is a legume, a dry pod a few centimeters in length derived from a single carpel and contains about 8-10 chestnut-brown bean-shaped seeds. Colour of flour…
Mangalore basale Soppu Sambhar
I have visited my grandmother’s sister only twice in my life. “Angichi Perumma “ we used to call her. She lived in a very small ( in other words kugramam) a village smaller than a regular village in Kerala in a place called Yerumapatti. She thought me something very valuable in he short time I…
Naturally Hema 