Kurinji flowers from Kakkabbe forest hill ranges

[raghu ananth]

Came across these purple blooms in the forest hills of Kakkabbe-Nalnad. They appear to be a kind of Kurinji flowers. (The famed Nila-kurinji flowers are by nature plietesials - blooms once in 12 years. )   Would request Identity confirmation.   (Links : flowersofindia.net website has photo information on  karun kurinji http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/alphabet.html which morphologically resembles to the one posted in this mail.)   Habitat Forest hills, forest path, Place: Betweeen Kakkabbe-Nalnad and Thadiandamol, coorg, Part of western ghats, Karnataka   Sep 03 2009 Regards   Raghu

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[Dr. Pankaj Kumar]

This is offcourse Strobilanthes heyneanus but not the one which
flowers in 12 years i think.
That species is called Strobilanthes kunthiana

[santhosh kumar es]

This is Strobilanthus lupulina Nees. More often S. hyneanus Nees also treated as a synonym to this species. S.heyneanus has greenish bracts and bracteoles whereas S.lupulina has pink-purplish bracts and bracteoles. Now a days we can see S.lupulina as a garden plant. S.heyneanus still in the wild and  will flower once in every 4 years. I have no idea of the flowering cycle of S.lupulina. I guess it will flower annually?  Its gorgeous flowering nature is interesting.

 

Thanks

 

Santhosh

 

 

Dr E S Santhosh Kumar

2009/9/17 raghu ananth <ragh...@yahoo.com>

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is it Karvi?
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--- On Thu, 17/9/09, raghu ananth <ragh...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: raghu ananth <ragh...@yahoo.com>
> Subject: [indiantreepix:18593] Kurinji flowers from Kakkabbe forest hill ranges
> To: indian...@googlegroups.com
> Date: Thursday, 17 September, 2009, 3:19 PM
> Came across these purple
> blooms in the forest hills of Kakkabbe-Nalnad. They
> appear to be a kind of Kurinji flowers.
> (The famed Nila-kurinji flowers are by nature
> plietesials - blooms once in 12 years. )
>  
> Would request Identity confirmation.
>  
> (Links : flowersofindia.net website
> has photo information on  karun kurinji http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/alphabet.html which
> morphologically resembles to the one posted in this
> mail.)
>  
> Habitat Forest hills, forest path,
> Place: Betweeen Kakkabbe-Nalnad and Thadiandamol,
> coorg, Part of western ghats, Karnataka
>  
> Sep 03 2009
> Regards
>  
> Raghu
>

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