Beautiful post Garg ji! Encounter with leeches and ticks are almost unavoidable during trekkings and we never forget the places and interesting sightings of plants when such incidents are associated.
Regards Vijayasankar ------------------------------------------------------------------- Vijayasankar Raman, Ph.D. National Center for Natural Products Research University of Mississippi On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Smita <smita.ras...@gmail.com> wrote: > Garg sir beautiful picture... > such a lovely orchid > I think all ground orchids in monsoon come with leeches > Best regards > Smita > > > On Friday, January 17, 2014 4:29:48 PM UTC+5:30, JM Garg wrote: > >> Dear friends, >> Possibly this is my first post after a dry year of 2013 (mainly because >> of paucity of time due to different priorities). It is Habenaria >> longicorniculata<https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/m---z/o/orchidaceae/habenaria/habenaria-longicorniculata> >> as I >> knew it from the first glance while moving on a narrow road through >> Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary on way to Kemmanagundi from Chikmaglur in >> Oct'2013. >> >> I requested the driver to stop the vehicle & hurriedly got down to click >> it. I didn't bother for anything else. I also took the pictures of the >> basal leaves and many other pictures from many angles, a few while almost >> sitting. After the photo session with this & a few other flowering herbs >> was over I returned back to the vehicle. As we moved a bit i could see >> blood on my pants. As I looked further I saw many leaches on my legs, shirt >> & on the vehicle. It was as if it was a great attack of leeches. I quickly >> removed them by heavily shaking my hands & legs one by one. Finally all of >> them (around six) were gone but not without leaving their temporary scars. >> I knew they did no long term harm. One of them was later found to have left >> a mark on the toes of my daughter. >> >> It certainly was a great encounter with Habenaria >> longicorniculata<https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/m---z/o/orchidaceae/habenaria/habenaria-longicorniculata> >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 >> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >> The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species*& >> eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged >> alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki >> /Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them for free as per Creative >> Commons license attached with each image. >> For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, >> please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group (largest in the >> world): http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 2200 >> members & 1,78,400 messages on 31/12/13) or Efloraofindia website: https >> ://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more >> than 9000 species & 1,80, 000 images). >> Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of >> India'. >> > -- > 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 indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > 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 indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
