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.
October 29, 2011
Happy smiles ...
Scientific name: Codiaeum variegatum
This is native to south India, grown extensively across the globe for its beautiful foliage. The evergreen shrub grows up to 3 m tall and has large, thick, ever green leaves. The inflorescence are long recemes with male and female flowers on separate inflorescence. The male flowers are white with five small petals and 20-30 stamens. This flower stalk was taken just outside my lab, on 30th August 2011.
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