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.
Ritchie's Desmodium is a small annual herb, 15-30 cm tall. It was named in the honour of Captain T. A. Ritchie, 20th century British zoologist and army officer whowho established the Kenya National Parks. Branches are round, slender. Leaves are round, 1-3 cm across, pointed, hairy beneath, carried on 5-6 mm long threadlike stalks. Flowers are borne in 7-15 cm long racemes in leaf axils and at the end of branches. Lower flowers occur in distant pairs, uppers ones solitary. Flowers are pink, shaped like pea-flowers. Pods are 6-12 mm long.
