I was mesmerised by its smell in a Park in the morning in Hyderabad & later could find out this tree. One of the beutiful flowers to be captured.
On 5 January 2012 18:00, Balkar Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear All > Last year in Jan 2011. I got a chance to attend NCC National Integration > camp in Tirupati City (S V Arts College Campus), We visited many places > there and captured lots of plants. During the visit of a local Lord Shiva > Temple, I was asking cadets to come back soon and sit in the vehicle then a > girl cadet of our group called me and asked the name of some flowers, > people were carrying those to offer to lord Shiva. I was also stunned to > see the beauty of flowers. then i asked to some pilgrims abut the tree from > where they are getting those flowers, but language barrier!! I could not > get anything. Then a local cadet said me Sir tree is there. I was > mesmerized to see the tree and flowers. Flowers were at some height, still > i was able to capture those flowers. I saw *Couroupita guianensis* > there first time. Really this was the shot of the Tour for me there. > Thanks > > -- > Regards > > Dr Balkar Singh > Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology > Arya P G College, Panipat > Haryana-132103 > 09416262964 > -- With regards, J.M.Garg ([email protected]) 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: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1760 members & 1,00,000 messages on 21/12/11) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 6000 species). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'.
