#Monotropahypopitys
Dutchman's Pipe/Pinesap
A bizarre plant that doesn't photosynthesize its food, instead gets it by parasitising fungi associated with roots of Pine trees around.
So it's Mycoheterotrophic plant.
Species etymology - hypo "under" and pitys "pine" = (Under Pine)
Provocative questions:
Is explorative science bad science?
Do we always need hypotheses when asking questions or exploring data & patterns?
Observations/patterns can be new without having a pre-formulated hypothesis.
Thoughts?
Who needs mobile alarm when your home is in a biodiversity rich village!
Here's a Great Barbet (Psilopogon virens) who came next to my sleeping room at 7am, just five minutes after I switched off my alarm thinking of sleeping again. Fortunately there's no way to switch it off!
This ball of flowers is a succulent native to India, they have leafless quadrangular stems and grow this bouquet like arrangement of flowers during this time. The flowers have a rotting smell and attract flies, who are the pollinators.
#carallumaumbellata#stapeliad#iamabotanist
#insectivorousplant
Utricularia graminifolia Vahl
Bladderworts (Utricularia spp.) are the carnivorous plants having most sophisticated trapping mechanism to be found anywhere in the plant kingdom, they use highly specialised vacuum driven bladder traps to feed on tiny insects.
In this dry season when most things are in shades of grey and brown, signs of life can still be found.
Shorea roxburghii, Ardisia solanacea, Phyllanthus emblica, Ochna gamblei, Phyllanthus polyphyllus and Combretum albidum
@FRLH_Herbarium#botany#iamabotanist#nature#karnataka
Massive land clearing happening in North Bangalore for the proposed "Shivaram Karanth Layout" spread over Ramagondanahalli and surrounding areas. Lands used for agriculture and plantations, all gone in 2 weeks.
#destruction#treecutting#landclearing#bangalore
I was walking to the shop this morning and heard a loud thud near the compound wall. I went there and saw a big dry coconut had fallen from the tree. Dehusked it and got this beautiful coconut :)
#coconut#cocosnucifera#palm
Beautiful flowers of a plant in the mint and tulsi family, Anisochilus - from the Greek Anisos, meaning unequal and cheîlos, meaning “lip.” This whole genus though has been transferred to Coleus, based on molecular evidence.
#anisochilus#lamiaceae#botany#coleus#iamabotanist