Thanks, Shrikant ji for your posting. What a magical composition!!! I have no words to describe. You have certainly changed the way the flowers are seen, photographed & documented. Your perseverance always inspire us on Indiantreepix. You are also one of the pillars of Indiantreepix.
2009/12/31 Shrikant Ingalhalikar <[email protected]> > Dear All, > > I have travelled extensively for studying and photographing wild flowers in > the Western Ghats, but this plant alone made me do 10 trips amounting to > 10,000 kms to Goa and adjoining areas in the last 10 years for its flowering > to be witnessed and documented. I found several plants but not in flowers > ever. A fruiting plant was shown to me by Dr. Milind Sardesai in Nov. 2007 > inside Dajipur WLS near Kolhapur. The sanctuary opens on 1st November and > this precious climber flowers just before that. This year I made a reckoning > trek inside Dajipur and to my delight found the climber in buds. Of course I > had to go back yet again after a week and there was the gorgeous profusion > of flowering of this extremely rare climber. The size, beauty and the divine > fragrance of flowers of Clematis smilacifolia surpassed all the > disappointment of my earlier trips. > > Shrikant Ingalhalikar > 12 Varshanand Society > Anandnagar Sinhagad Road > Pune 411 051. > Tel 91 20 2435 0765. > Fax 91 20 2438 9190. > > <http://sigads.rediff.com/RealMedia/ads/click_nx.ads/www.rediffmail.com/signatureline....@middle?> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "indiantreepix" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<indiantreepix%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. > -- With regards, J.M.Garg ([email protected]) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' Image Resource of more than a thousand species of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg For learning about Indian Flora, visit/ join Google e-group- Indiantreepix: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "indiantreepix" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en.

