Blue flowers can be particularly prized in summer, where their cool nature contrasts with summer heat (if we are lucky).

Mayank Soni The Strobilanthes kunthiana, the Neelakurinji (meaning ‘blue flower’), blooms in mass (Credit: Mayank Soni) The Neelakurinji (often shortened to ‘Kurinji’) is a Strobilanthes ...

The blue kurinji flower blooms in the Western Ghats once in 12 years— during April-September. It has been occurring for millions of years. The flower finds lyrical mention in Sangam literature ...

In addition to Kurinji 20 other species are blooming this year, presenting flowers in shades from white to a lavender blue to a deep brown. All make their home in hilly grasslands. The loss of ...

But once a decade the hills above the tea fields erupt in an explosion of blue and purple, thanks to the kurinji plant, a tiny flower that blossoms just once every 12 years and is found solely in ...

The 12 yearly blooming of the mesmerising wild blue kurinji flowers across the highlands of southern India in 2018—from Munnar in Kerala to the Nilgiris and Shevaroy hills in Tamil Nadu resulted ...

To add to the agony, some mischief makers posted file pictures of fully-bloomed kurinji ... the colourful flowers in 2006, the valleys should have been painted the distinctive blue and purple ...

The Nilgiris (or the ‘blue mountains’), which takes its name from the blue Kurinji flowers, perhaps have the most number of species in the Western Ghats. Restoration ecologist in the Nilgiris ...

Tourists are turning out to stroll the flower-lined grounds of Hitachi Seaside Park in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki Prefecture, and enjoy the millions of baby blue nemophila now blanketing its bucolic hills.

Roy Mathew, a former editor at The Hindu, writes in his book, Kurinji: The Flower of the Blue Mountains, that the Muthuvan tribe, a forest-dwelling community in Kerala, believe the flower to be a ...