Flowers — Clipahoy

This Lizard can change its face colour based on threat perception and aggression!

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A Girgit or 'Bloodsucker' Garden Lizard in a Dooars forest edge displays its ridge of pink dorsal spines, and the yellow spot near its cheek. The common girgit of an Indian garden! Not a bloodsucker at all, though...

Ice plants open and shut before your eyes, and this dance happens each day and night as well!

snow · flowers

Ice plants come in multiple colours and shades: Watch Mesembryanthemum open before your eyes, shut at night to protect flowers from dew Mesembryanthemum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Aizoaceae; like many members of this famil…

Ice plants or Mesembryanthemum open before your eyes, shut at night to protect flowers from dew

flowers · snow

Ice plants or Mesembryanthemum open before your eyes, shut at night to protect flowers from dew Mesembryanthemum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Aizoaceae; like many members of this family, it is characterized by long-lasting f…

Musa velutina a vertically-growing pink banana type strange pretty plant seen in West Bengal, India

industry · flowers

Musa velutina is a vertically-growing pink banana type strange pretty plant, seen in Latpanchar, in India's West Bengal. Musa velutina, the hairy banana or pink banana, is a diploid species of wild banana.

Sheep descend buggyals of Uttarakhand, and take over meadows around Chopta, destroying flowers

flowers · livestock

Grazing sheep can ruin flower and grass meadows with their hooves. And when in such large numbers, they are over-run the meadows and destroy entire species preventing them from flowering or seeding, en masse.

Foxgloves or Digitalis flower spires look lovely at Jabbarkhet, but are poisonous

Uttarakhand·flowers

With the Grey-winged Blackbird calling out cheerfully and tunefully, tall nodding spikes of foxglove stand in Lord of the Rings Shire-type situations at our botanical collections in the Himalaya.

Sweet William flowers grow in thick bunches at Jabbarkhet botanical collections

Uttarakhand·flowers

Purple Rhododendron campanulatum shrubs flower around Tungnath and above Chopta in Uttarakhand

Uttarakhand·flowers

Purple Rhododendron campanulatum shrubs flower around Tungnath and abov Chopta in India's Uttarakhand Himalaya.

Meconopsis paniculata Himalayan yellow poppy as well as Oriental garden Lily: Two yellow stunners, in Sikkim

flowers · hills

Meconopsis paniculata or Himalayan yellow poppy growing wild on a Himalayan slope in north Sikkim, as well as Oriental garden Lily : Two yellow stunners Meconopsis paniculata in Sikkim Himalaya, seen in end Jun 2002 with droplets of monsoon…

Holly in Himalaya has yellow flowers, seen here in Mussoorie: Deck the halls with boughs of Holly!

Uttarakhand·hills · flowers

This is Mahonia nepaulensis, the Himalayan Holly. Holly shrubs in the Himalaya have yellow flowers, as seen here at our wildfilmsindia forests around Mussoorie : Deck the halls with boughs of Holly! Mahonia napaulensis Nepali: जमाने मान्द्र…

Edelweiss flowers or Leontopodium himalayanese grows with abandon in Sikkim high altitude lake side

river · flowers

The star shaped flowers will remind you of the Rogers and Hammerstein musical 'The Sound of Music'.

Meconopsis paniculata in Sikkim Himalaya, seen in end Jun 2022 with droplets of monsoon rain water

hills · flowers

Meconopsis paniculata in Sikkim Himalaya, seen in end Jun 2022 with droplets of monsoon rain water, in the Shingba Rhododendron Sanctuary beyond Lachung village, en route Yumthang in North Sikkim.

Meconopsis integrifolia from Tibet, budding at botanical arboreta in Uttarakhand

flowers · monsoon

Meconopsis integrifolia from Tibet, budding at Wildfilmsindia botanical arboreta in Uttarakhand Grown with seed provided by the Meconopsis Group of the UK, this is Meconopsis integrifolia ex Zheduo Shan, with reflective rain drops accumulat…

Bearded iris germanica flower veins show in back-lit Himalayan sunset view at gardens, in Jabbarkhet

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Back-lit Iris flower petals show their delicate structure, with veins, as Himalayan sunset glows behind Bearded iris grow aplenty during spring at wildfilmsindia gardens at Jabbarkhet in Landour.

Tulip spring in the Himalayan spring time - The first tulip bud is always special!

flowers · hills

Tulip spring in the Himalayan spring time, at our wildfilmsindia gardens in the Himalaya. The first tulip bud is always special!

Back-lit Iris flower petals show their delicate structure and veins, Himalayan sunset glows behind, in Jabbarkhet

Uttarakhand·flowers · hills

Back-lit Iris flower petals show their delicate structure, with veins, as Himalayan sunset glows behind Bearded iris grow aplenty during spring at wildfilmsindia gardens at Jabbarkhet in Landour.

Lali gurans or Rhododendron arboreum at protected Jabbarkhet forests and sanctuary

Uttarakhand·forest · flowers

Spring-time Himalayan forests are alight with the garrish reds of Lali gurans or Rhododendron arboreum at wildfilmsindia protected Jabbarkhet forests and sanctuary, with bird call aplenty and clear air in the mountains.

Planting out a bed of Agapanthus lilies, seed-grown in the Himalaya, in Uttarakhand

flowers · hills

Planting out a bed of blue Agapanthus lilies, seed-grown in the Himalaya, atour wildfilmsindia gardens in Uttarakhand. Trans-planting Agapanthus Lily clumps, after breaking the clumps and re-distributing them, at wildfilmsindia.

Shirley poppy galore at Himalayan gardens, in a riot of pinks and reds

hills · flowers

Shirley poppy galore at wildfilmsindia Himalayan gardens, in a riot of pinks and reds.

Oriental Poppy of the giantest 5" wide kind at Jabbarkhet botanical collection of

Uttarakhand·flowers

Oriental Poppy of the giantest kind at Jabbarkhet botanical collection of wildfilmsindia, with short flowr stalks and a deep thick-set flower head, and a full five inches across. Papaver orientale - Prince of orange

Blossom-headed or Plum-headed Parakeet at Wilderness Orchard in New Delhi's spring-time warmth

flowers · farmland

Eating sunflowers, or rather destroying them is this Blossom-headed or Plum-headed Parakeet at Wilderness Orchard in New Delhi's spring-time warmth. The Blossom has red shoulder patches.

Gilheri Squirrel digs around the garden, for roots, seeds and morsels: Five-striped Palm Squirrel

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Gilheri Squirrel digs around the garden, for roots, seeds and morsels. The Five-striped Palm Squirrel is India's common urban squirrel species.

There are no parrots in India! Watch common Rose-ringed Parakeet or tota nesting in Delhi summer

birds · flowers

Tota ka ghonsla: Parakeet nests in a cavity hole within a Jacaranda tree trunk in Delhi Cute tota chick stares out of nest for first time! Parakeet male and female do rounds as they feed the ever hungry mouths.