With a hope ...

Into a day ...

Frowned ....?

Day with music ....

Botanical name: Priva cordifolia

Heart-Leaf Velvet Bur is an erect, perennial herb, growing up to 1 m tall. The plant iss branched with prominently elongated fruiting branches. Stem is quadrangular, velvety with hooked hairs, especially at nodes. Leaves are ovate, ovate-triangular to elliptic, 3-6 cm long, 2-5 cm broad, toothed, blunt, nearly heart-shaped or truncate at the base, velvety with hooked hairs. Leaf stalks are 1-2 cm long. Spike-like flower-racemes are 10-20 cm long, increasing up to 30 cm in fruit, interrupted, distantly flowered. Flowers are white, slaver form, rarely violetish, about 1 cm across, nearly stalkless. Sepal-tube is cylindrical, minutely toothed, 6-8 mm long, 2-2.5 mm broad, increasing up to 8 mm in breadth in fruit and becoming almost globose with narrow acutish mouth, persistent, velvety with hooked hairs, looking like a velvety burr. Flowers are 8-12 mm long, tube about as long or slightly exceeding the calyx. Flowers are 2-lipped with 5, unequal petals. Fruit is 4-5 mm long, broadly obcordate, enclosed within inflated, persistent calyx. This photograph was taken on 23rd September, 2010 from CSRTI, campus Mysore.

Gracefully ....

Botanical name: Oenothera rosea

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 blaze ...

Botanical name: Amaranthus spinosus

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.

Sweet and surprise ....

Botanical name: Cadaba fruticosa

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.