Fwd: STORY OF A PLANT : ( PASSION FLOWER )

[J.M. Garg]

Thanks a lot, Bimal ji. 

It is really really nice. 

If you can write like this, it should go on. 

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From: "Bimal Sar kar" <bima...@gmail.com>
Date: 14 Jun 2017 8:04 a.m.
Subject: STORY OF A PLANT : ( PASSION FLOWER )
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Hello,

          In an earlier post on Flowers In Our Garden , I wrote about Gloiosa superba( GLORY LILY ). I wrote about my introduction to that plant and where all I have seen that plant and how it has come to our garden. My friend Brig. Rajbir Singh wrote suggested that I should have a series on stories like this ( as I am having a series Symbiosis ). In fact some of the plants in our garden has got some story. To day I am trying to narrate a story of Passion Flower.

         My love with Passion Flower started some time in 1958 at Netrakona ( now in Bangladesh. ). In front of the Municipality office in that town there was a climber with beautiful blue flowers with sweet fragrance. The plant attracted me. I used to pluck mature flower buds in the evening ( I was a 5th standard student ) and used to put those buds in a bowl of water and the buds used to open up in the morning. I used to see those opening in front of my eyes. They used

to float around  ( as if swimming with happiness ) with sweet fragrance filling the room. The experience can not be narrated ( at least I can't do that ). At that time I knew it as JUMKOLATA. Some people in Bangladesh call it as " SITAR KANER JHUMKA "( Meaning JUMKA of Sita's ear ). I left my home town in 1964.Next I saw this plant at Pachmarhi. There was one in the Military Hospital, one in the rock garden near AMALTAS and one at Bharat Scout. They grow from suckers. ( by this time I knew that it is Passiflora caerulea ). I got a sapling from the plant at Bharat Scout. It was planted in one of my friend's house at Cooch Behar. It was in bloom for a year but died due to neglect.

        In 1981 I was at Chail and came across another type of Passion flower ( people call it as RAKHI FLOWER ).

In 2001 I was at Tezpur and found different  types of Passion flower ( including Passiflora caerulea ). In Assam they call this flower as " PANDAV-KOURAV " and some people call it as " SHANKH-CHAKRA-GADA-PADMAA "

      In christen literature Passiflora has a special place.

I brought a sapling from Tezpur in 2002 and planted the same in our garden. It has flourished and bears many flowers at this time of the year. This plant introduced me to the life cycle of a beautiful butterfly Leopard Lace Wing.

It also helped me in my series on symbiosis.

Attaching a collage of the flower in our garden

     Regards,

[Paresh Churi]

Very Nice!

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[J.M. Garg]

Passiflora 'Soi Fah' as per images and references herein.

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From: Bimal Sar kar <bima...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 at 08:04
Subject: STORY OF A PLANT : ( PASSION FLOWER )
To:

Hello,

          In an earlier post on Flowers In Our Garden , I wrote about Gloiosa superba( GLORY LILY ). I wrote about my introduction to that plant and where all I have seen that plant and how it has come to our garden. My friend Brig. Rajbir Singh wrote suggested that I should have a series on stories like this ( as I am having a series Symbiosis ). In fact some of the plants in our garden has got some story. To day I am trying to narrate a story of Passion Flower.

         My love with Passion Flower started some time in 1958 at Netrakona ( now in Bangladesh. ). In front of the Municipality office in that town there was a climber with beautiful blue flowers with sweet fragrance. The plant attracted me. I used to pluck mature flower buds in the evening ( I was a 5th standard student ) and used to put those buds in a bowl of water and the buds used to open up in the morning. I used to see those opening in front of my eyes. They used

to float around  ( as if swimming with happiness ) with sweet fragrance filling the room. The experience can not be narrated ( at least I can't do that ). At that time I knew it as JUMKOLATA. Some people in Bangladesh call it as " SITAR KANER JHUMKA "( Meaning JUMKA of Sita's ear ). I left my home town in 1964.Next I saw this plant at Pachmarhi. There was one in the Military Hospital, one in the rock garden near AMALTAS and one at Bharat Scout. They grow from suckers. ( by this time I knew that it is Passiflora caerulea ). I got a sapling from the plant at Bharat Scout. It was planted in one of my friend's house at Cooch Behar. It was in bloom for a year but died due to neglect.

        In 1981 I was at Chail and came across another type of Passion flower ( people call it as RAKHI FLOWER ).

In 2001 I was at Tezpur and found different  types of Passion flower ( including Passiflora caerulea ). In Assam they call this flower as " PANDAV-KOURAV " and some people call it as " SHANKH-CHAKRA-GADA-PADMAA "

      In christen literature Passiflora has a special place.

I brought a sapling from Tezpur in 2002 and planted the same in our garden. It has flourished and bears many flowers at this time of the year. This plant introduced me to the life cycle of a beautiful butterfly Leopard Lace Wing.

It also helped me in my series on symbiosis.

Attaching a collage of the flower in our garden

     Regards,

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From: Bimal Sar kar <bima...@gmail.com>

Date: Fri 31 May, 2019, 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: STORY OF A PLANT : ( PASSION FLOWER )
To: J.M. Garg <jmg...@gmail.com>

Thank you Garg ji.

Regards,