Excellent pictures!! Thanks for sharing one of my favourite plants. The journy through the Singba Rhododendron Santuary in Yumthang valley of Sikkim during spring seems like heaven. Mora than 25 spp of Rhodo are found here & there is a festival during April-May called "Rhododendron Festival".
Thanks & Regards, Sukla Chanda On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Prashant Awale <[email protected]> wrote: > Wow, Nice photographs. Thanks a lot Rawat ji for sharing the pics and the > information. I liked the composition of first photograph showing Habitat.. > Thanks again.. > Regards > Prashant > > > On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Ushadi Micromini < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Very nice information >> thank you >> any comprehensive review that is accessible on the net? >> >> usha di >> >> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 2:59 PM, D.S Rawat >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Sir J.D.Hooker, well known Taxonomist, when visited the Himalaya he was >>> amazed by the tree form Rhododendrons here. Later he carried many of them >>> to Kew, UK for cultivation and large numbers of ornamental Rhododendrons in >>> Europe now have a Himalayan blood too. Maximum numbers of Rhododendron >>> species in the world occur in the Himalaya but their diversity reduces when >>> one moves from Eastern Himalaya to Western Himalaya. In Uttarakhand only >>> six species are known to occur. These are *Rhododendron anthopogon, >>> R.arboreum, R.barbatum, R.campanulatum, R.lepidotum* and *R.nivale*. Of >>> these *R.arboreum* and *R.barbatum* are trees, *R.campanulatum* is a >>> tall shrub and rest are dwarf shrubs. >>> >>> Rhododendrons will unfurl their trusses of flowers only from >>> late Feb. – May in Himalayan highland. Meanwhile I am enclosing pics of one >>> of them taken last year. >>> >>> This species* Rhododendron campanulatum*, known as “Simru” in Garhwal, >>> is found at timberline areas (3000-3600m) in almost all the alpine zones of >>> Uttarakhand, including Valley of Flowers. When fully flourishing >>> extensively branched plants make an impenetrable fence. It is a major >>> source of firewood to the Shepherds occupying alpine zones in Uttarakhand >>> on account of its ability to burn even when it is wet in rain. >>> >>> DSRawat Pantnagar >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "efloraofindia" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Usha di >> =========== >> >> -- >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "efloraofindia" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
