Turmeric
Got a turmeric plant as a birthday present a couple of years ago. It needs to be an indoor plant…
Category: west india
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
Orange Cosmos
First saw these flowers on a Sahyadri hike (western ghats, around Pune). Love the bright orange/yellow flowers, and also the…
Gloriosa
A striking delicate flower that I first saw on hikes in the Sahyadri hills near Pune. Apparently all parts of…
Cannonball flowering tree
Large deciduous tree with beautiful, fragrant flowers and large, stinky fruits! Flowers bloom and die within a day, but a…
Jacaranda
Though originating from South America, Jacaranda trees are common in India where I’ve admired them from childhood. Now learnt that…