Very Nice! On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 9:48 AM, J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks a lot, Bimal ji. > It is really really nice. > If you can write like this, it should go on. > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "Bimal Sar kar" <bimal....@gmail.com> > Date: 14 Jun 2017 8:04 a.m. > Subject: STORY OF A PLANT : ( PASSION FLOWER ) > To: > Cc: > > Hello, >> In an earlier post on Flowers In Our Garden , I wrote about >> Gloiosa superba( GLORY LILY ). I wrote about my introduction to that plant >> and where all I have seen that plant and how it has come to our garden. My >> friend Brig. Rajbir Singh wrote suggested that I should have a series on >> stories like this ( as I am having a series Symbiosis ). In fact some of >> the plants in our garden has got some story. To day I am trying to narrate >> a story of Passion Flower. >> My love with Passion Flower started some time in 1958 at >> Netrakona ( now in Bangladesh. ). In front of the Municipality office in >> that town there was a climber with beautiful blue flowers with sweet >> fragrance. The plant attracted me. I used to pluck mature flower buds in >> the evening ( I was a 5th standard student ) and used to put those buds in >> a bowl of water and the buds used to open up in the morning. I used to see >> those opening in front of my eyes. They used >> to float around ( as if swimming with happiness ) with sweet fragrance >> filling the room. The experience can not be narrated ( at least I can't do >> that ). At that time I knew it as JUMKOLATA. Some people in Bangladesh call >> it as " SITAR KANER JHUMKA "( Meaning JUMKA of Sita's ear ). I left my home >> town in 1964.Next I saw this plant at Pachmarhi. There was one in the >> Military Hospital, one in the rock garden near AMALTAS and one at Bharat >> Scout. They grow from suckers. ( by this time I knew that it is Passiflora >> caerulea ). I got a sapling from the plant at Bharat Scout. It was planted >> in one of my friend's house at Cooch Behar. It was in bloom for a year but >> died due to neglect. >> In 1981 I was at Chail and came across another type of Passion >> flower ( people call it as RAKHI FLOWER ). >> In 2001 I was at Tezpur and found different types of Passion flower ( >> including Passiflora caerulea ). In Assam they call this flower as " >> PANDAV-KOURAV " and some people call it as " SHANKH-CHAKRA-GADA-PADMAA " >> In christen literature Passiflora has a special place. >> I brought a sapling from Tezpur in 2002 and planted the same in our >> garden. It has flourished and bears many flowers at this time of the year. >> This plant introduced me to the life cycle of a beautiful butterfly Leopard >> Lace Wing. >> It also helped me in my series on symbiosis. >> Attaching a collage of the flower in our garden >> Regards, >> > -- > 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 https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 an email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
