Turmeric
Got a turmeric plant as a birthday present a couple of years ago. It needs to be an indoor plant…
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Sage Weed
Another flower pic from a hike in the Sahyadris in 2007. Special notes A paste of the plant is applied…
East Indian Arrowroot
Looks very much like turmeric (Curcuma Longa), but found via Google Lens that this pic is of a different species…
Rattlebox
Pictures are from a hike in the Western Ghats (Sahyadris) around 2007. Categories
Indian Hemp
Photos from some hike in the Western Ghats (Sahyadris) sometime in 2007. Special notes Categories
Red Silk-Cotton
Saw it first in Lalbagh in Bangalore. This majestic tree has beautiful red flowers and attractive bark. It sheds its…
Cattail
This brown stick, very unlike any traditional flower, is still classified as a flower! The cattail is a reed that…
Orange Cosmos
First saw these flowers on a Sahyadri hike (western ghats, around Pune). Love the bright orange/yellow flowers, and also the…
Giant milkweed
This plant grows wild on the street sides of Madras (Chennai). I’ve known it from childhood by its Tamil name,…
Gloriosa
A striking delicate flower that I first saw on hikes in the Sahyadri hills near Pune. Apparently all parts of…