Water hyacinth
Although Water Hyacinth produces beautiful delicate lavender flowers, it is considered a problematic invasive species in many parts of the…
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Common Hawthorn
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Turmeric
Got a turmeric plant as a birthday present a couple of years ago. It needs to be an indoor plant…
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…
Wood spurge
This plant first attracted me at a public garden on a brilliantly sunny spring day, with its lush spring green…
Cattail
This brown stick, very unlike any traditional flower, is still classified as a flower! The cattail is a reed that…
Daffodil
I have childhood memories of daffodils – not because they grew in my hometown (Madras), but because of Wordsworth’s poem…