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.
Ixora is a common flowering shrub native to South India and Srilanka. It is a dense multi branched ever green shrub. The glossy, leathery. oblong leaves about 10 cm long are carried in opposite pairs on stem. Small tubular, scarlet flowers in dense rounded clusters are produced year long. It comes in a variety of colours. From my childhood i have been curiously observing this flower as it was available in plenty all around me. This flower was photographed on 19th August 2011 in the CSRTI, Mysore campus.
The sensitive plant or touch-me-not is a wonderful and sensitive plant found across the tropical world. Its fern like leaves close up and droop when touched and re-open within minutes. The stem is slender and prickly. Leaves are bipinnae, stalked pale pink or purple flower heads arise from the leaf axils. The small fluffy, ball shaped flowers on bloom in plenty is a wonderful sight! The round to ovoid heads are 8-10 mm in diameter. As children me and my sisters were very curious to touch these plants to see the leaves folding. Even i have seen my daughter doing the same. In Mysore also they are plenty all around and i took this photograph on 31st August, 2011 in the campus of CSRTI, Mysore.
Canon ball tree is a large deciduous tropical tree growing upto 20 m high. It is indigenous to Amazon rain forests. There is mention about this plant in Indian scripts many thousands years before. It flowers in recemes which originate from the bark. It bears fragrant yellow reddish and pink flowers with unusual shape. This is used to offer Puja in Shiv temples in India and has special significance in Budhist culture in Srilanka. Few months before my research colleague took me to a temple in anticipation of some flowers in this tree but during the season it had not flowered yet. But on 1st December, 2011 i incidently entered into the park near the Mysore palace and to my delight, the tree was bearing bunches of flowers. My cameras smiled on them and and i got many snaps of it. When i told about it, my friend was feeling very happy to see it in my postings. So it is for my friend ....
Cockscomb is an annual herb and a very common garden plant. The tightly clustered blooms resemble a rooster's comb. There are red, yellow, orange, gold and pink coloured flowers. The plant has oval or lance shaped leaves. On 3rd October 2011 i went to the Dussehra flower show at Mysore with my daughter and took this photograph. The shape of the flower has surprised my daughter to like this so much!
Yellow ginger lily or cream lily is a perennial herb with leafy shoots growing upto 2 m. It is found in eastern Himalayas from 1200-2300 m altitute. Rhizomes are 3 cm in dia, branched and fragrant. Leaves are oblong to lance shaped, 20-45 cm long, 4-10 cm wide. Flowers are fragrant and borne in erect inflorescence. Flowers and anthers are pale yellow in colour. I have seen this in many home gardens. One day on 29th August 2011 my colleague took me to his brothers home just opposite to the institute to show me some plants and there i took this photograph. I dedicate this flower to his good hart.
Box leaved barleria is a shrub 5-6 ft. tall with strong spines under the leaves. Purple blue flowers are produced in whorls towards the upper part of the stem. Leaves are 8-16 mm long. The plant is seen growing all around Mysore. This flower was shot on 21st September, 2011 nearby the home where i was staying.
The hairy Indian mallow is a perennial herb grows to a height of 2.5 m tall. Has a sticky yellow to orange basally swollen glandular hairs. Leaves are alternate and simple. Flowers are solitary and formed in leaf axils and bisexual, having five petals. Petals are yellow to bright orange in colour. I took this photograph on 21st Steptember 2011 while on my walking stroll.
