Flower from Gangtok for id

usha lachungpa

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Mar 2, 2011, 12:09:30 AM3/2/11

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Dea All,

This was photographed at the Sai Mandir, Daramdin, West Sikkim. Am unable to locate the original picture but used this to showcase in pollinator series during IYB 2010.

Looks like a lowland exotic as I have seen it in only one other place, a PWB bungalow garden in South Sikkim, but no camera then.

Would be grateful for identification.

Kind regards,

Usha

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5. ants taking nectar.JPG

Pankaj Kumar

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Mar 2, 2011, 12:29:33 AM3/2/11

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Seems like Asclepias physocarpa to me.
Pankaj

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Wildlife Institute of India
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usha lachungpa

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Mar 2, 2011, 7:06:39 AM3/2/11

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Many thanks, Pankaj,

I also found Thingnam Girija's picture of the same from Manipur on this egroup's flowerofindia.net!

Wonderful!

Kind regards,

Usha

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