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.
Pink Evening Primrose is an interesting wild-flower native to Central and South America. However, it is widely naturalized in India, and can be seen growing wild high in the Himalayas. It is a well-branched perennial herb, flowering the first year, with stems 10-40 cm tall, densely bristly. Leaves are nearly entire or somewhat cut, elliptic or rarely narrowly ovate, 2-5 x 1-2.5 cm. Leaf stalk is 0.2-2.5 cm long. Flowers open near sunrise. Mature buds are erect. Flower tube is 4-8 mm long. Sepals are 7-12 mm long. The four petals are rose to rose-purple in color, inverted-egg shaped, 4-12 mm long. Style is 0.8-1.4 cm long, the stigma surrounded by the anthers. Capsule is club-shaped, 1.3-3 cm long, tapering to a sterile portion 0.5-2 cm long. This photographs was taken from the rose gardens of Ooty, on 26th April, 2011 while on a family trip.
Prickly Amaranth is an annual herb with sometimes red tinged erect stems, sometimes ascending, 30-150 cm long, usually branched. Leaves ovate to rhombic-ovate, elliptic, lanceolate-oblong, or lanceolate, blades 1-12 cm long, 0.89-6 cm wide, smooth, leaft stalk 1-9 cm long. Flowers green, in axillary clusters in the lower part of the plant and in unbranched or branched spikes in the upper part, the lower clusters entirely without stamens as are the lower flowers of the spikes, the upper flowers in the spikes staminate. This is the plant growing in a cement pot in my home garden. As it grew wild i did not want it to be destroyed seeing its luxurious growth. I took the photograph on 26th June, 2012.
Indian Cadaba is a climbing shrub, height up to 5 m. Oval leaves with rounded tip are arranged alternately on the branches. Flowers usually in terminal racemes, or axillary solitary. Petals 4, clawed. Disk-appendix about as long as the petal claw, tubular, often trumpet shaped, apex generally petaloid and more or less toothed. Stamens 4-6, exserted, spreading; filaments on a short androphore or irregularly fused with the gynophore. Fruit is nearly cylindrical, leathery - internal tissues surrounding the nearly round seeds are often orange coloured. This was a surprise to me as i was moving with my friend in a sericulture village in Nanjangud Taluk of Mysore district on 21st June, 2012. It suddenly struct my attention and we stopped the vehicle and took this photograph.
The dwarf white bauhinia is native to Asia. This is a perfect little tree for places where you don't want anything wild to take over. It will grow no more than two or three meters, and won't take up much space or get in anyone's way. It really is quite inoffensive. Beautiful white flowers cover this tree in spring and fill the air with a sweet clean fragrance. The white flowers look like snowflakes hanging on the branches. Sometimes it is called Snowy Orchid Tree. The leaves are shaped a little like a cow's hoof. This flower was photographed in a sericulture farmers' home on 21st June, 2012 while going with my friend.
Botanical name: Abelmoschus esculentus
Ladies Finger is a member of the hibiscus family, an annual that gets 3-8' tall (depending on the cultivar) and bears yellow flowers that give rise to the familiar okra pods so common in India as a fried vegetable. Okra's attractive blossoms are ivory or yellow in color, funnel-shaped and resemble hibiscus flowers. The throat of the flower is maroon. The plant is a rather coarse annual with large lobed, slightly spiny leaves and a thick, semiwoody stem with few branches. This photograph was taken from a farmers' field near Mysore, on 22nd June, 2012.
Common jasmine is a shrubby decidious vine that is native to India and China. Its flowers are very fragrant. Common jasmine foliage is decidious. Leaves are opposite and pinnate; leaflets are ovate and pointed. Leaflets 3-7, upper surface slightly pubescent, especially on midrib and margins, lateral leaflets acute or apiculate, sessile or subsessile, the upper pair sometimes with broad connate bases, terminal much larger, ovate or lanceolate, acuminate. Flowers of common jasmine are white, and fragrant. Common jasmine is the national flower of Pakistan. This photograph was taken on 20th June, 2012 while on a sericulture village visit with my friend.
Ritchie's Desmodium is a small annual herb, 15-30 cm tall. It was named in the honour of Captain T. A. Ritchie, 20th century British zoologist and army officer whowho established the Kenya National Parks. Branches are round, slender. Leaves are round, 1-3 cm across, pointed, hairy beneath, carried on 5-6 mm long threadlike stalks. Flowers are borne in 7-15 cm long racemes in leaf axils and at the end of branches. Lower flowers occur in distant pairs, uppers ones solitary. Flowers are pink, shaped like pea-flowers. Pods are 6-12 mm long.
