Nice picture the colour is really fab!!
Tanay
On 15 January 2012 10:22, Vijayasankar <vijay.botan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Very nice picture of a beautiful orchid. I like the mild and pleasant
> color of flowers. And, as usual, well-narrated incident...Thanks Usha di
> for sharing.
>
> The name Dendrobium pierardii is a synonym of Dendrobium cucullatum as per
> 'theplantlist'.
>
> Regards
>
> Vijayasankar Raman
> National Center for Natural Products Research
> University of Mississippi
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 11:19 AM, 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
>> ===========
>>
>>
>
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