Seeking flowers of a fig tree..

Botanical Name: Kydia calycina Roxb.[Malvaceae] Common Name: वारंग Warang, रान भेंडी ranbhendi Distribution: Western Ghats, Eastern Ghats, Madhya Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland, Odisha Places observed: SGNP, Tungareshwar (Maharashtra) Flowering Class: Dicot Habitat: Deciduous forests, Moist- Deciduous forests to Semi-Evergreen forests Habit: Tree Flowering and Fruiting: Flowering :October Fruiting: December. Dry fruits stay on the tree for longer time, till March-April. Plant  Stem Leaves Flower Fruit Seeds  

Botanical Name: Aglaia elaeagnoidea (A. Juss.) Benth. [Meliaceae] Common Name: Priyangu , Punyava The tree found in Tungareshwar WLS, Konkan region of Maharashtra is a variety of Aglaia elaeagnoidea called Aglaia talbotti  Distribution: Semi-evergreen to Evergreen forests, Rare in Tungareshwar WLS, Konkan region of Maharashtra, Karnataka Flowering Class: Dicot Habitat: On slopes, in dry-evergreen patches of the forests Habit: Small Evergreen Tree Flowering and Fruiting: Flowering : November  Fruiting: January -August The Plant Stem  It has a very beautiful grayish-brown bark. Below it, there is orange colour underbark.   Leaves Leaves are imparipinnate, alternate to subopposite, 10-20 cm long, compound with 3-7 leaflets. Leaflets are opposite to subopposite, elliptic, or oblong-elliptic, 6-12 cm long, 2.5-5.5 cm wide.   Flower Orange-yellow flowers in panicles, and they are shorter than leaves, in the leaf axils, 5 Sepals , rounded. 5 Petals Stamen tube is

Cypripedium tibeticum Phaisus delavayi Ponerorchis chusua Galearis roborovskyi G. SPATHULATA , diantha Amitostigma monanthum Oreorchis nana Platanthera minutiflora Tipularia szechuanica Corallorhiza trifida Neottia puberula v. maculata Goodyera repens Neottia acumninata Cephalanthera longifolia Dactylorhiza viridis f. virescens Epipactis mairei Epipactis helleborine v. tangutica Calanthe alpina Calanthe tricarinata Calanthe arcuata Calanthe brevicornu Neottia wardii Herminium ophioglossoides Bletilla ochracea Habenaria cf. diphylla Pholidota yunnanesis Cephalanthera erecta

Rohdea japonica [Asperagaceae] - Japanese Sacred lily, this plant is considered good luck both in Japan and China, its broad long leaves symbolise long life and immortality. Flowers are strangely shaped. Actinidia polygama[Actinidiaceae] - Silver vine, the leaves turn silvery-white Lechanorchis japonica [Orchidaceae] - a rare and beautiful orchid Lecanorchis is a genus of orchids that are usually found on the mountain forest floors across Southeast Asia, including India. If you had thought that there is a flower behind every fruit, you may have to think again. Japanese scientists have found an orchid that turns into a fruit without blooming. They recorded the flower, Lecanorchis nigricans var. Nigricans in Kami City of Kochi Prefecture, which remains a bud and slowly turns into a fruit. This behaviour is called cleistogamy, where the flower self pollinates. Cleistogamy has been reported in some members of the grass family also. Cinnamomum camphora [ Lauraceae ] - Camphor t

Botanical Name: Heliotropium indicum L. [Boraginaceae] Common Name:  Distribution: Flowering Class: Habitat: Habit: Flowering and Fruiting: The Plant Stem