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.
Silky indigo is an erect or spreading annual up to 1.5 m tall. The stems are hairy with stiff brown hairs. Leaves are compound. Inflorescence is a receme with 25 mm long stalk. Pink flowers are 1 cm long. As i went on to shoot a morning glory, as a surprise gift, it presented itself to be shot. With a happy lens i shot this flower on 10th September 2011 from the wild growth of tree mulberry plantations in CSRTI, Mysore. I found it very difficult to shoot as it was busy chattering with the cool windy breeze!
The Indian coral tree or tiger claw is a showy tall tree growing 60-80'. This is a highly valued ornamental tree. The leaves are compound with three diamond shaped leaflets. The tree blooms profusely with bright crimson flowers 2-3" long in dense terminal clusters. I took this photograph on 3rd December, 2010 at Pasteure Institute, Coonoor, Tamil Nadu while on a trip to attend a Workshop.
The butterfly pea is a wonderful twining plant bearing large flowers (about 2" long and 1.5" wide). The plant is native of subtropical Amerca and Asia. The vine can grow upto 9'. It vines around anything adjacent to it. There are blue, cream and pinkish variants and shades of flowers. The plant is extensively used in Ayurvedic medicinal preparations. It is seen all around South India as a wild growth. Even inside the CSRTI campus at Mysore, i could see single petalled and multi-petalled flowers. I took this photograph on 1st September, 2011 from CSRTI, Mysore campus.
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.
The mexican snow ball or hen and chicks is a succulent, popular as a potted plant. They are drought resistant plants. The beauty of rosettes of unusual blue-green foliage is exemplary and wonderful. The plant blooms once a year. The small red-yellow flowers are carried on a short stem. I took this photograph on 1st December 2010 at Silkworm Satellite Breeding Station, Coonoor while on a workshop on Silkworm Breeding.
The wild potato vine, big rooted morning glory or man of the earth is a herbaceous perennial vine. The vine with heart shaped leaf could be 20-30' long, climbs to any adjacent vegetation. The corolla is white, except for rosy pink or reddish purple coloration deep within the throat. This can be seen flowering in the morning hours and as the sun moves up it closes down. I took this photograph on 11th September, 2011, on my way to lab.
Spiny caperbush is a spiny, trailing, deciduous shrub native to the Mediterranean. The flower is short lived for few hours only. The cream white petals and lively purple stamina are really exciting. In Mysore this plant was seen on my walking way and on the way to my lab. Many a times i had snapped it at various locations, but this was shot on 13th April 2011 on a roadside near Srirampura, Mysore.
