A salute to the earth ...

Botanical name: Capparis sepiaria

Spreading or climbing, much branched shrub, 3-4 m long, more or less pubescent with ashy grey simple hairs. Leaves elliptic oblong to ovate or suborbicular, 1.5-4 cm long, 1-2 cm broad, often retuse, softly pubescent to glabrous; petiole 2-5 mm long, pubescent; stipular spines 2-5 mm, hooked, often brown-black. Flowers usually in corymbose terminal clusters of 10-30, small, 5-10 mm across, white; pedicels 1-2 cm long, not thickened in fruit, pubescent. Sepals 3-6 mm long, 2.5-3.5 mm broad, subequal. Petals oblong-spathulate, 3.5-8 mm long, 2-3 mm broad, more or less hairy at the base. I took this photograph today from inside my institute, as i was roaming with my camera. I dedicate to all who love the mother earth ....