Saturday, November 17, 2012

Various flowers of Sri Lanka.

The 'Kandyan dancer' orchid.

Orchids 

Orchids

A flower found in the wet-zone of Sri Lanka and carried by children in 'Peraharas'  of the village temples, crying 'Saadhu, saadhu, mal Perahara'.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

this pic. of red flower at the bottom is called "pin-na mal/flowers" by locals. Do add more pic.s of SLankan flowers with their names etc, since there r no decent web sites on SLankan flowers...

Philip Veerasingam said...
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Philip Veerasingam said...

Please go to the web-link
http://philipv203.blogspot.com/
You will see quite a lot of pictures of flowers found in Sri Lanka.
Click on the bottom right hand corner - 'Older postings' in each web-page that you open.