Nice picture!
Regards Giby On 15 January 2012 22:49, ushadi Micromini <microminipho...@gmail.com>wrote: > We were on a Sunday afternoon drive when my friends decided to stop and > have some tea... we drove into a village.. and parked under a kadam > tree... while they unpacked the picnic baskets and poured tea etc I was > walking around and a local gentleman came out to see if what / who had > invaded his property... though there were no boundry indicators per se... > we apologized, but he turned out to be friendly... and said he just wanted > to talk, so over tea he told us what he grows etc and very proudly pointed > at this flower on his Kadam tree... and he even told us its name... he had > done some research it seems... Dendrobium pierardii.... I came home and > looked it up... books and the net images show more intense color... than > I got... and the binomial he told seems to hold ... UNLESS PANKAJ thinks > otherwise.... > > I am very happy to have made a friend across from the Ganges and he has > invited us back whenever the mood strikes us... > > Serendipity, you ask? why? > > because as we drove out of Calcutta we were hoping to find something > totally created by nature... not planted by forest dept, highway department > or a gardener, nor chopped down or debilitated by humanity... > and what is more spontaneous than a beautiful orchid flowering on a > beautiful tree with connection to Krishna... the playful one... > > > > > Usha di > =========== > > -- GIBY KURIAKOSE PhD Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Royal Enclave, Jakkur Post, Srirampura Bangalore- 560064 India Phone - +91 9448714856 (Mobile) visit my pictures @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/giby
