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Sepal cup is bell-shaped, segments or teeth very irregular. Flowers have salver-form, meaning starting from a narrow tube and suddenly flaring into a flat arrangement of petals. Flowers are white or pale lemon-yellow, orange when fading. Flower tube is about 2 inches long, with 5-9 obliquely obovate petals, about 1/2 as long as the tube.
A Maerua oblongifolia being sold at the thindi beedi (food street), V.V. Puram, Bangalore. Maerua oblongifolia (syn. Maerua arenaria, Niebhuria arenaria) is a low woody bushy under-shrub sometimes scandent to 2–3 meters high, with a thick root stock and thick leaves, and strongly scented flowers, occurring in India, Pakistan, Africa and Saudi Arabia.
Ploughing is forbidden on this day. People fast one day before the festival. Young people collect Sal flowers from the nearby forest and catch crabs and fish. On the occasion of festival people go to Sarna by beating of Dhol, Nagara and Madal. People worship the Sal tree. Shalai, the flowers of Sal tree, are offered to deities.
The flora of India is one of the richest in the world due to the wide range of climate, topology and habitat in the country. There are estimated to be over 18,000 species of flowering plants in India, which constitute some 6-7 percent of the total plant species in the world.
A rangoli on the occasion of Diwali, Goa, India A rangoli made with flowers on the occasion of Onam Rangoli at Delhi, India Rangoli is an art form that originates from the Indian subcontinent, in which patterns are created on the floor or a tabletop using materials such as powdered limestone, red ochre, dry rice flour, coloured sand, quartz powder, flower petals, and coloured rocks.
List of Indian state flowers State Common name [3] Binomial name [4] Image Andhra Pradesh: Jasmine: Jasminum officinale [5] Arunachal Pradesh: Foxtail orchid: Rhynchostylis retusa [6] Assam: Bihar: Kachnar: Bauhinia variegata [7] Goa: Red jasmine: Plumeria rubra: Gujarat: Marigold: Tagetes erecta: Haryana: Lotus: Nelumbo nucifera: Himachal ...
Champak was founded in 1969 [2] by Vishwanath of Delhi Press. At that time, Champak competed with Chandamama, one of the best Children's selling magazines and Parag (Times of Indian Press) and Nandan (Hindustan Times Press).
Oroxylum indicum is a species of flowering plant of the monotypic genus Oroxylum in the family Bignoniaceae. [2] [3]: 128 It is commonly called Indian trumpet tree, [4] oroxylum, [5] Indian trumpet flower, [6] broken bones, [7] scythe tree, [8] tree of Damocles, [4] or midnight horror [9] It can reach a height of 18 metres (59 ft).