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Known by many different names according to the region, Custard apple, sharifa or Custard sugar is a fruit tree which is not very common in India any longer. Filmed up close here is the flower and the leaves of the tree.

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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Intense red in colour a single inflorescence of pomegranate flower flower in the Delhi spring. This flower is ornamental in gardens apart from the rich fruits it will give.

farmland · flowers

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.

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Karonda fruit, also called Black Currant or Christ’s thorn and scientifically termed Carissa carandas, is a traditional summer produce in India, that is widely utilised in making pickles, jams and preserves.

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We are so used to seeing fruits on the shelves of supermarkets and the vegetable markets. This is a raw unfiltered tree of a Chinese Mandarin Orange laden with fruit in a garden 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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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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Who knew Grapes are also fruitful in Delhi kitchen gardens. A small garden in the back of a concrete building and the grapevine laden with green grapes. Surely at this rate, we might be seeing vineyards in Delhi too?

flowers · industry

The remarkable Sausage Tree (Kigelia africana) reveals its deep maroon, bell-shaped flowers and developing sausage-like fruits suspended from long stalks.

Tamil Nadu·flowers · hills

Tourists crowd the famous Pillar Rocks viewpoint in Kodaikanal situated in Tamil Nadu. Tourists crosses the strong root trees to explore the place. standing on high hill tops they enjoy the magnificent view.

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Visitors in Karnataka watching the flowers in the park in Tamil Nadu. Water fall and red poppy or Papaver rhoeas can be seen. Women folks are seen viewing the garden, the sign board reads 'Mocking of Ladies is Punishable'.

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Sim's Park is the garden destination of Coonoor, Tamil Nadu. Shot in the '90s, this video showcases the tourists and the locals visiting the park and enjoying the flora around them.

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Tourists visit to experience more than a thousand species of trees, plants and flowers found at this well maintained botanical gardens.

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On a large peepal or Ficus religiosa tree, this Apis dorsata colony has created a bee hive and are busy collecting pollen and nectar from sunflowers, balsam or Impatiens, neem and sundry other plants and trees that are flowering in the spri…

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See the delicate process of flower pollination taking place before your very eyes, with this Apis dorsata bee hovering within the pollen chamber of a Sunflower, and picking up pollen grains as well as dropping pollen from another Sunflower…

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Honeybee and Red Ants crawling at the buds and papery floral parts. Notice the small insects camouflaged among the dull flower parts.

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A Black Carpenter Bee is seen hovering on the white flowers of the lal mulhi red radishes in our garden. This will be supplemented by the spring flowers coming on the way.

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These Giant Honeybees are not here to collect nectar but are busy collecting pollen from this Icelandic Poppy flower.

flowers · wildlife

Giant Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa spp.) and Robber Fly (Pogonosoma genus) gather nectar and pollen from a bright a Loofah (Luffa or Sponge Gourd) flower in a close-up wildlife scene.

Rajasthan·festival · livestock

Indian tourists take the ride of Ferris wheels in Pushkar camel fair in Rajasthan. People walk around the market at Pushkar camel fair.

Haryana·highway · flowers

Gurgaon is the sixth largest city in the Indian state of Haryana. Gurgaon is the industrial and financial center of Haryana. It is located 30 km south of national capital New Delhi.

Uttarakhand·flowers · monsoon

Seen through a blanket of monsoon mist, on the cliff-faces of Landour, these beautiful flowers have bracts that secrete a gluey glue-like substance from what then develops into a seed pod...