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White-breasted Waterhen chick - all leggy, gawky and cute as a button, follows its mum around... Waterhen chick - all leggy, gawky and cute as a button, follows its mum around...

monsoon · farmland

The Kinno is an orange-like citrus tree that yields a large harvest and is extensively grown in Punjab, Haryana and other western states, even in relatively dry ground.

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Amla or Aonlais in cultivation in India since time immemorial; It is an important minor fruit crop having commercial significance. It belongs to the family Euphorbiaceae.

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Banana is a popular fruit in India. Here's a banana plantation. During the seventh century AD its cultivation spread to Egypt and Africa. At present banana is being cultivated throughout the warm tropical regions of the world.

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Workers busy plucking apricots from a tree in an orchard owned by Dr. Kundan Singh Panwar, expert horticulturalist and consultant to Uttarakhand state government, on horticultural matters, at his Nainbagh fruit orchard in Uttarakhand state.…

flowers · farmland

Did you know that plum trees can actually grow and even flourish in the summer heat and winter cold combination of New Delhi city? These plums at the wildfilmsindia Orchard cum botanical gardens are doing rather well in the Delhi spring, al…

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With the backdrop of high hills with sparse deodar trees. Apple trees laden with red apples, ready for harvest in the Harsil area of Utttarakhand. Apple is widely grown in the cold regions of northern India.

flowers · farmland

Spring-time apple blossom at the Wilderness Orchard in New Delhi. One would scarcely believe that apples bloom and fruit in the heat of the plains of north India.

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The wild form of the Mulberry tends to have black and red fruit admixed, whereas the hybrid one either has green-yellow long droops of fruit or reddish-black ones, of a uniform colour.

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This Five-striped Palm Squirrel may look cure as it eats this langda mango that it has dropped from our tree, but the number of squirrels at work on the mangos, and their quick multiplication (as they are essentially rats and can breed very…

monsoon · farmland

Often mistaken for blackberry, deep purple Jamuns or Jambolan hangs in clusters as the monsoon arrives. The fruits on the trees are almost ripe and ready to be eaten.

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The summer heat has subsided and the pear trees at our Wilderness Orchard have Nashpatis which has gone from green to light tints of yellow.

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In July 2020, green apples ripen on a tree in a fruit orchard in Delhi. Imagine apples growing in Delhi's summer heat, but this is indeed the case.

farmland · flowers

A banana tree hosts flower and fruit inflorescence on long stalks in a banana orchard in Delhi, thanks to the bounty of the rainy season. The sunbirds enjoy the nectar and the macaques and squirrels will steal the fruit.

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A walk inside a banana farm in Maharashtra. After the rains, the leaves look fresh and lush. Healthy stalks of bananas, flowers are seen up close. This is one of the many banana plantations in the Western Ghats as seen in monsoon.

farmland · monsoon

This lovely mango orchard stretches out into the horizon, in a dark green fantastic belt of profusion that has taken full advantage of the monsoon rains.

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While many of us prefer the bitter marmalade that this makes, and include the rind and pips for pectin as a natural preservative, others just like eating them raw! Trees laden with organic and ripe Chinese Mandarins or tangerines at our Wil…

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These enormous citrus fruit orbs comprise of the wild root stock of oranges or what we call khatta in India. They are large and heavy and ideal for making lemonade or nimbu ka achaar.

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The blood-red grapefruit is more associated with the blood oranges of Italy but our own lal chakotra has equally impressive interior colour and a lovely fragrance as well as sour-sweet grapefruit taste.

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Rupin Dang harvests a daily dose of citrus, among them oranges, kinnow / kinnu, malta and red blood grapefruit at the Wilderness Orchard in South Delhi.

bazaar · farmland

A vast stretch of a strawberry farm in Mahabaleshwar, Maharashtra in the winter months. This is where garden Strawberries come from to the shelves of supermarkets.

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These are actually khattas - the wild rootstock fruit of the orange tree! Organically grown citrus fruit from our Wilderness Orchard is ready for harvest in peak winter.

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Loquat is truly a fruit from the past. One barely sees loquat being sold or even planted and grown these days. Just some Uttar Pradesh orchards still give importance to this lovely spring-time fruit.