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.
Camellia is native to China. It is a small tree or shrub. The youngest branches branches are purplish-brown, becoming greyish brown as they age. The alternate leathery leaves are dark greeen on the top and paler on the underside. The flowers are very beautiful, looking like roses. The colour vary from red to pink to white, sometimes having multi-coloured stripes or specks. The stamens are bringht yellow in colour. This is usually planted as borders or as formation of hedges. These plants are seen in many gardens of Ooty and Coonoor. I took this photograph on 3rd December, 2010, while attending a workshop in Conoor.
