Photographer’s Note
Chinar is a gigantic sized tree, found growing throughout the Kashmir valley. Its scientific name is platanus orientalis. Its family is plataneae. A deciduous tree, Chinar traces its origin to Greece. Its incredible beauty has to be seen to be believed. The tree is at its most elegance and exuberance during autumn. Though its majesty can be seen all through the year. Iqbal, the poet of the East, traces the warmth of the Kashmir soil to the "blaze of Chinars it nurses in its bosom".
The picture was taken at nishat garden in Kashmir in mid october.
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(294) 2009-11-01 9:05
Supriya,
I really like your botanical photos - the importance of trees (esp ones as beuatiful as these) in our life cannot be enough stressed. Perhaps among all the photos of culture in TE, we lacked genuine expressions of nature...
keep posting!
biswaroop
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Copyright: supriya pal (supi4u)
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(236) - Genre: Places
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2009-10-23
- Categories: Nature
- Camera: Canon SX 110 IS
- Exposure: f/4, 1/250 seconds
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- Photo Version: Original Version
- Date Submitted: 2009-11-01 2:18
