This is so beautiful. I imagine, whats the significance of having such structure on flower. Just a very very very wild guess.....A POLLINATOR WHO LIKES ROPE CLIMBING hahahahha.... I meant a ground dwelling insect who can use this to climb on the flower.....
Imaginations can be wild....no one can stop. Pankaj On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Satish Phadke <[email protected]> wrote: > I had seen these flowers in SP College campus Pune 5 years back, I don't > remember the ID told at that time. > After observing some recent posts this looks like Strophanthus species from > Apocynaceae most likely Strophanthus kombe. > This was a planted by botany dept. a garden plant ; of course non native. > Somehow these were fallen on the ground and I don't have any pictures of the > leaves. > Basic size of the flower 2cm or so. The thread like segments of corolla > around 30 cm. > Shaista ji had posted similar flower on the group. > Regards > Dr Phadke > -- *********************************************** "TAXONOMISTS GETTING EXTINCT AND SPECIES DATA DEFICIENT !!" Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae) Research Associate Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project Department of Habitat Ecology Wildlife Institute of India Post Box # 18 Dehradun - 248001, India
