Happy Diwali at Rani Bagh

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  Mumbai (Bombay), Mahārāshtra, India
Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Pictures from a morning stroll through my favourite gardens on Saturday November 6, 2010

HAPPY DIWALI 2010

Greetings from this pretty sunbird sipping nectar from a beautiful Albizzia flower.

                








                 


                      












Dutchman's Pipe or Bathak Phul as it is locally known - Aristolochia ringens

 



















Two Bauhinias
















Garlic Vine - it really smells of garlic!












Beautiful capparis climber
 













Brownea coccinea in out of season bloom





















Crataeva



















The rare Gustavias























Parmentiera full of flowers but not a seed in sight




















































Lizard eating butterfly on the trunk of Gustavia insignis






































Coppersmith - Crimson breasted barbet










































These butterflies are from the Hanging Gardens at Malabar Hill the next day, 7 November 2010

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