The flower of the night bramha kamal (ब्रम्ह कमळ) in Marathi also known as Epiphyllum oxypetalum is one of the most beautiful flowers that you will see. Though the time for which it blooms is very short typically a few hours in the night, it makes the most of it. The fragrance of the flower is to be had, there are no word in any language of the world to describe it. We had a plant at our house for quite some time but it did not flower, once it flowered and we did not notice.
But the next time it did, I was all ready with the Canon S2, so here are the shots from circa June 2006.
Did play with a new White LED torch that I had got recently.
Then when I came to HBCSE, I saw a second one of my life, this is circa August 2006. So here are the photos from that episode. Here a white spider was seen sitting on the petals, waiting for its prey, quite good camouflage!
Can you not see the spider above and below?
Just I was getting over this flower, someone told me that Gajanan in the centre has had an amazing bloom of bramha kamal's at his house, a staggering 8 of them at the same time. Initially I did not believe it. But anyway we went to see it. So it was another amazing sight. So double eye candy for me on the same night.
In 2007 somehow the plant flowered but I missed to take the shots. But in 2008 I did not. The plant at HBCSE had bloomed twice so far this year, and today on 30 bumper bloom again, total 7 of them!! All at our disposal. So here are the shots from this episode.
Since my white LED torch gave up at the very crucial moment, I had to use a yellow light torch. But this resulted in golded epi's. Which look equally good!!!
No matter how many times you see them, a new flower of bramha kamal will always delight you, no matter how many times you smell it, you will still crave for its smell. So this is the amazing bramha kamal a.k.a. Epiphyllum oxypetalum.
A good links for information on the same:
http://web.missouri.edu/~riceg/epiphyllum/
Till next time adios...
1 comment:
i look first time bramhakamal last night,first time ever large flower came to seen and memorable fragrance...but diditn know history behind this flower
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