Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Beauty Of Horton Plains [Post # 02]

This is a flower of Tibouchina sp. It is a genus of about 350 species of neotropical plants in the family Melastomataceae. They are trees, shrubs or subshrubs growing 0.5-25 m tall, and are known as "glory bushes" or sometimes "glory trees".
This is Sri Lankan Sambar Deer (Cervus unicolor unicolor). This subspecies is one of the largest Sambar Deer species with the largest antlers both in size and in body proportions. Large males weight up to 270-280 kg.These are some shots near the entrance to Horton plains.

1 comments:

vichy said...

nice photos charitha.... pls add our photos also....