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.
Spade flower or pink ladies slipper is a tiny herb with pretty pink flowers. It is observed in most part of India. Leaves are linear, lance like. Pink-purple spade shaped flowers occur solitarily. Sepals 3-4 mm long. Lower petal is broad with deep purple veins. I was very enthusiastic about these plants from my childhood, as they were plenty around my home. Again i noticed them in Mysore in the institute campus, where i work. This flower was photographed on 20th December, 2011 adjacent to home in my native place, Ponvila, near Parassala in Trivandrum district of Kerala state.
