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Common Hawthorn

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Got a turmeric plant as a birthday present a couple of years ago. It needs to be an indoor plant…

Looks very much like turmeric (Curcuma Longa), but found via Google Lens that this pic is of a different species…

Pictures are from a hike in the Western Ghats (Sahyadris) around 2007. Categories

Photos from some hike in the Western Ghats (Sahyadris) sometime in 2007. Special notes Categories

Saw it first in Lalbagh in Bangalore. This majestic tree has beautiful red flowers and attractive bark. It sheds its…

This plant first attracted me at a public garden on a brilliantly sunny spring day, with its lush spring green…

This brown stick, very unlike any traditional flower, is still classified as a flower! The cattail is a reed that…

I have childhood memories of daffodils – not because they grew in my hometown (Madras), but because of Wordsworth’s poem…

First saw these flowers on a Sahyadri hike (western ghats, around Pune). Love the bright orange/yellow flowers, and also the…