Saluting every life with a flower each day! Flowers are soul of the planet, blooming to play music with silent notes. Smile at them as they are sweet hearted!! Only the photographs taken by me are uplinked. I lean heavily to http://www.flowersofindia for flower identification and descriptions. Looking forward to valuable comments and suggestions.
Colville's glory, colvillia or whip tree is a rare, beautiful flowering tree native of Madagascar. This spectacular flowering tree is a fast growing and can reach up to 50 ft. It has fine leaves like ferns. The long and conspicuous cylindrical or cone shaped clusters bear bright orange flowers that are bright red in bud. The grape like clusters of velvety buds vary in colour from green to blood orange, which are a wonderful sight. The sighting of this tree in full bloom was a pleasant surprise to me in the morning of 10th September, 2011, in a park opposite to the district court, Mysore. As i was busy shooting, i could see a large number of beetles flocking around the flowers and the tree waving its head, as if welcoming the friends!
