-- With regards, J. M. Garg ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Bimal Sar kar <[email protected]> Date: Fri 31 May, 2019, 6:48 PM Subject: Re: STORY OF A PLANT : ( PASSION FLOWER ) To: J.M. Garg <[email protected]>
Thank you Garg ji. Regards, On Fri, 31 May 2019 at 09:48, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > *Passiflora* 'Soi Fah' > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/m---z/p/passifloraceae/passiflora/passiflora-species/passiflora-soi-fah> > as > per images and references herein. > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Bimal Sar kar <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 at 08:04 > Subject: STORY OF A PLANT : ( PASSION FLOWER ) > To: > > > 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, > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> > > Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. > > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the > world- more than 3,000 members & 3,00,000 messages on 23.8.18) or > Efloraofindia > website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species > database of more than 12,000 species & 3,00,000 images of which more than > 1,70,000 images are directly displayed). > > The whole world uses my Image Resource > <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a > thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. > (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as > per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > > 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CA%2BiuSFAb3RLLkzYWJoDbV0P7MV1QPT8C-%2BBfmnkWB8aB7RW3ng%40mail.gmail.com.
