Category: Best Flora Photograph

Aarti Khale : Best Flora Photograph to celebrate 15 years of completion of efloraofindia: Ceratostema silvicola : Neotropical Blueberries My journey with Efloraofindia started on the 2nd of January, 2010. For my Best Flora Photograph, I have chosen this image taken at the Conservatory of Atlanta Botanical Garden, in Atlanta. Ceratostema silvicola is found in […]

Best flora picture: 1 image. Here attached is the best flora picture of mine. I have chosen this, not only because it is one of the best flora pictures of mine but also it is not yet on our site. Will send you a full set of pictures soon. Pomatocalpa spicata, Breda. From Thattekkad, Ernakulam […]

Swamy/New series/ID/65 – Handroanthus impetiginosus: I consider the photo (s) of Handroanthus impetiginosus as best (Ref: Swamy/New series/ID/65 – Handroanthus impetiginosus) It is the most beautiful ornamental tree during winter in Mysore. This tree is very important to me because it is very close to my dwelling place,  hardly a  few yards from my residence located […]

Thingnam Girija: Best Flora Photograph: In June 2013 we (Tabish and I) were returning from Bumla Pass, in Tawang area, and were at altitude of 4000-4500 m, and we came across this captivating sight. The story emerged much later after Tabish thoroughly analyzed the pictures taken by us. Primula strumosa  is a beautiful primrose with pale […]

Pankaj Kumar: ‘Best Flora Photograph’ Contest to celebrate 15 years of completion of efloraofindia: In 2011, while going through the proof of one of the books, “The wild orchids of Hong Kong”, I realised there was a mistake. There was a species, Crepidium acuminatum included in the book and it had two figures plus one plate. To […]

Saroj Kasaju: Best floral photograph: Primula primulina (Spreng.) H. Hara It was mid-monsoon and the dirt road leading to Kuri village was in a very bad state. We drove our jeep  with much difficulty and we had to give up the ride at 8000 ft. Now the climb to Kuri village at 11000 ft. has started. It […]

Best Flora Photograph : Vijayasankar Raman : 2022: Huernia zebrina (Lifesaver plant, Doughnut flower) of Apocynaceae is my entry for the Best Flora Photograph contest to celebrate 15 years of efloraofindia. I chose this picture because of the unique beauty of the flower. It has a prominent shiny central ring called the annulus, appearing like a […]

Best floral photograph: Solanum erianthum Thanks, Seema ji, for the beautiful details.

A.Sinha: Best Flora Photograph to celebrate 15 years of completion of efloraofindia: Grewia orientalis Syn. Grewia columnaris (Smith) Growing wild in semi urban area  near Chennai, photo ca 2012 ———————————————————– Plant exploration walks wherever possible are my top choice of leisure activity. This photo  re-captures for me  the excitement of finding  an unknown species,  and  […]

Best flora photograph: Neomarica northiana Lock down 1. April 2020. Like everywhere, Mumbai too had come to a standstill. There was a frightening silence on the roads. Couldn’t move out anywhere. My regular morning walks had stopped. So gradually started making rounds in the building. Since I stay on ground floor, I have “encroached” the […]

J.M.Garg: Best Flora Phot0graph: This is my first upload after a long long time (mainly because of paucity of time due to different priorities). It is Habenaria longicorniculata as I knew it from the first glance while moving on a narrow road through Bhadra Wildlife Sanctuary on the way to Kemmanagundi from Chikmagalur in Oct ‘2013. I requested the driver to stop the vehicle & hurriedly got down […]

Satish Pardeshi: ‘Best Flora Photograph’: Please find my entry for the Best Flora Photograph contest 2022. The details and story behind the photograph. Meconopsis horridula Hook. f. & Thomson, syn: Papaver horridulum (Hook.fil. & Thomson) Christenh. & Byng). also known as Prickly blue poppy found at altitudes of 3500-5500m from mid July to August end in […]

Balkar Singh: Best Flora photo for celebration of 15th Year of eFloraofindia: Here is My best flora photograph. This was shot recently in April 2022 during our visit to Pratapnagar (Distt Tehri, Uttarakhand). We were on the way to Pratapnagar and the day was much hotter than usual. Flowers on the trees or shrubs were […]

A. Lalithamba: Best Flora Photograph: This is my entry for best picture; it is Vanda wightii; in Rapur-Chitvel ghat; on that day the sky is cloudy, though it is summer; I didn’t found any plant in flowering in the forest for few kilometers; suddenly I found it on a deciduous high Terminalia tree; but there […]

Best eflora picture: It is very difficult to select the best from several thousands of pictures available in our folders. Still I am selecting this as my Best Picture because the information the image gives to us is related to identification and its background look. eg the number of leaves in a branchlet, leaf shape, […]

Nidhan Singh:: Flora Photograph to celebrate successful completion of 15 years of efloraofindia: When I look back at my attempts to photograph flowering plants, it gives a sense of satisfaction that, out of interest, I could manage to visit a lot of places…especially in the Himalayas..!! Every tour is deeply engraved in my memory and […]

Best flora picture on completion of 15 years: Prashant: 15 amazing years and counting.. It’s a great feeling to be associated with such a versatile and friendly group. Sharing a photograph of Corynandra elegans as my flora picture. Thanks, Prashant ji. It will certainly make a lovely and cute wall hanging. wonderful Very well captured and […]

Best flora picture on completion of 15 years: What can be more beautiful than my most beloved fragrant orchid Pecteilis gigantea to celebrate 15 th birthday of my favourite group Wonderful, Smita ji. Published on https://efloraofindia.com/2022/04/27/smita-raskar-best-flora-photograph-to-celebrate-15-years-of-completion-of-efloraofindia-on-17-6-22/ Posted it in the efloraofindia Facebook page. Pl. give it wide publicity in Social media, by posting it in your profile/ […]

Gurcharan Singh: Best Flora Photograph to celebrate 15 years of completion of efloraofindia: “Beauty in death” Year 2019 was the most productive year for me because I was able to capture nearly 9000 images of plants between March and September. It was also the first time I was able to capture spring plants in California, […]

Dinesh Valke: Best Flora Photograph to celebrate 15 years of completion of efloraofindia: Little is charming Getting to explore flora during family vacation has always been rewarding to me. Whatever I get, however little, is charming. This March’22, I was in Sikkim. I was able to add around 40 new species to my collection. Sikkim […]