1. Ipomoea violacea

The common name of this climber is 'Moon flower' or 'Beach Moon Flower'.

Ipomoea violacea blooms in the night and fades by morning. I tried to catch its bloom for several days with no luck. It blooms in June, the petals are so delicate that it must be getting damaged by slight touch of pollinators or raindrops and strong winds. To me its a very special flower because I could not still see it blooming in wild.

Now I have tried to plant this climber in the balcony garden of my house and will study its phases.

This flower is nocturnal, and its pollinators are nocturnal creatures like moths, nocturnal insects and bats.

The Climber

The Leaves

Fully mature leaf

The Flower

young Flower bud (will mature and bloom in few days)

Faded flower in the morning after blooming in the night. The flower bud the left side is ready to bloom in the night

Flower that bloomed in the night, picture captured around 6 am

The Fruit and seeds

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91. Lumnitzera racemosa

Botanical Name: Lumnitzera racemosa Willd. [Combreataceae] Common Name: Black Mangrove, किर्पा kirpa (Marathi) Lumnitzera , named after the German botanist, Stephan Lumnitzer (1750-1806) Distribution: Mangrove habitat of Western coasts, Eastern coasts of India, Bangladesh, Indonesia Places observed: Talzan, Charkop-Mumbai Flowering Class: Dicot Habitat: Mangrove Habit: Shrub or small Tree Flowering and Fruiting: Flowering June to October-November, Fruiting: December to March along with sparse flowering The Plant Stem Young stem is reddish For older trees, the bark is grey and fissured longitudinally Leaves Leaves are sessile. Alternately arranged on the stem. Simple , 3-7 cm long and 2-3 cm wide in size , Succulent and have Serrated Margin. The shape of the leaf is obovate and at the tip there is a notch. Flowers Flowers in leaf axils in small spike. Flowers are white in colour, the calyx is green and tube like. The calyx is divided into 5 sma

6. Catunaregam spinosa

Botanical Name: Catunaregam spinosa [Rubiaceae - Coffee family] Common Name: Location found: Charkop Sector 8, Kandivali West, Mumbai, Maharashtra This is a small tree. Many times it grows like a shrub. Only in favourable sunny conditions and a good spacious environment, it grows to be a tree like structure. The Tree The Leaves The Flower The Fruit

87. Tetrameles nudiflora

Botanical Name: Tetrameles nudiflora R. Br. [Tetramelaceae] Common Name: False Hemp Tree , Bhendsa , Bhend Distribution: Maharashtra- western ghats (Khandala, Tungareshwar), Pune, Raigad, Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg, Thane Karnataka: Dandeli,Coorg, N. Kanara Kerala:Idukki, Kasaragod, Kollam, Malapuram, Palakkad, Pathanamthitta, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur, Wynad Tamil Nadu: Coimbatore Assam, Meghalaya; Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, Australia Flowering Class: Dicot Habit: Large, buttressed, deciduous tree Habitat: Evergreen, semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests Flowering and Fruiting: March to May The Plant Branches Stem Bark Buttressed roots Leaves Flower Fruit

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