Early Monsoon Forest Flora - Mahuli foothills

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  Forests at the Mahuli foothills, Mahārāshtra, India
Monday, June 20, 2011

The monsoons have started early this year, in the first week of June 2011.  The forests at the foothills of Mahuli, a part of the Tansa WLS, are a good place to see early monsoon flora such as the various lilies. 

We were not disappointed, in fact the icing on the cake was to discover a whole host of flowering Iphigenia indica - tiny little star shaped maroon flowers of the liliaceae family.










  Pretty pink orchids of Aerides maculosum were in bloom on several forest trees.











The Mahuli pinnacles were for the most part, hidden in cloud.   We saw several grey hornbills and racket tailed drongoes though they were too fast to be captured on [digi] film.

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Forest orchids	Iphigenia indica	Ants ???	Purple lily

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