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.
Purple morning glory is a perennial climbing shrub, 1-2 m high. Bright purple funnel shaped flowers are a wonderful sight, which makes you cheerful. The flowers are 5 cm long. The plant is native to India. One plant is beautifully growing in the front garden of my institute (CSRTI) at Mysore. Parallelly it grows in wild with profuse flowering in different parts of the same campus. I photographed these flowers in the morning of 19th August, 2011 just in front of the institute.
The paper flower is native to Brazil. It is an evergreen climbing thorny vine. Tiny white flowers appear in clusters surrounded by colourful papery bracts. The plant can be grown as a hedge, a shrub, a climber and also in pots or as bonsai. The plant loves open sunshine. It was named after the French navigator, Louis de Bougainville, who discovered it in Brazil in 1790 and brought to Europe, from where it became widespread and popular. This plant can be seen just outside the animal house attached to the lab where i work now. I had photographed my friend keeping these flowers as background. Months later, i snapped these flowers alone on 11th June, 2011 but of course missing my friend ...
Cineraria or Florist's Cineraria are beautiful plants which provide a splash of color to garden in winters and spring. The hybrid was first developed in the British royal gardens in 1777. This large leaved annual produces a bouquet of bright colored flowers in pink, purple and blue, and also in pastel shades. The Cineraria is a free-blooming, brilliant, and easily-grown plant. Easily raised from seed, almost hardy, blooming in winter and spring, it is a most valuable plant. This photograph was taken from Sims Park, Coonoor in the afternoon of 27th April, 2011 while on a family trip.
Lobster claw, Hanging heliconia is one of the most grown species native to the north western region of South America. It has a beautiful pendent inflorescence with downward-facing flowers, and provides a source of nectar to birds.. The bracts are red with greenish yellow edges. Each bract resembles a lobster's claw, hence the common name. The inflorescence it produces is one of the most colorful one will ever encounter. The mature plant normally starts to flower in the summer. The flowers last a long time and make an excellent cut flower. During 1988 while i was pursuing my computer studies, from my Aunt’s home, we had this plant. This photograph was taken on 29th August 2011 from a house opposite to the institute where i work at present.
Obscure Morning Glory is a small flower of about 1” dia. The beautiful pale yellow flowers with deep purple throats adorn this vigorous vine with small, heart shaped leaves. It is native to Tropical East Africa, Mascarene Islands and tropical Asia. This vine usually climbs on other bushes or anything around it. Flowers continuously and every day it welcomes you with newer ones to cheer you up on your morning stroll. This photograph i took near my lab in the morning of 29th September, 2011.
Moses in the Cradle, Oysterplant, Boatlily, Moses-in-a-boat is a succulent herb occurs naturally in the West Indies, Mexico, and Central America. It has a dense cluster of sturdy 6-12” long sword-shaped leaves arising from a trunk like stem. The leaves are beautiful with a dark teal-tinged forest green on top and vivid violet underneath. This garden plant is raised for its beautiful foliage and can be grown for bedding, rock gardens and even in containers. The small white three-petaled flowers are hidden in boat-shaped purple bracts nestled in the leaf axils. This flower was shot on 31st August 2011 just from a potted plant kept in front of the lab where i work.
Waterleaf, Surinam purslane, Philippine spinach, Ceylon spinach, Florida spinach, potherb fameflower, Lagos bologi or sweetheart is an herbaceous perennial plant native to Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America. As a leaf vegetable, it is rich in vitamin A and C, and minerals iron and calcium. High in oxalic acid content hence consumption should be limited by those suffering from kidney disorders, gout, and rheumatoid arthritis. It is one of the most import leaf vegetables of Nigeria. In India and other south East Asian countries this is being consumed as a leafy vegetable. Ceylon Spinach is an erect, stout, fleshy herb, 0.5-1 m tall. Leaves are elliptic to obovate, 5-15 cm long, 1.5-5 cm wide, tip pointed to tapering. Flowers are borne in 2-5-branched, raceme-like clusters 3-20 cm long. Flower stalk is about 8-11 mm long, bracts narrow, 4-6 mm long. Sepals are about. 4-5 mm long. Petals are pink, obovate, up to 1 cm long. This photograph was taken on 31st August 2011, on the way, near my lab, waving its head all the while.
