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Image: Bloom of Kurinji Flowers at Bababudangiri
This is an old photograph of a bloom of Neelakurinji flowers (Strobilanthes kunthiana), made in 2006 at the end of monsoons.
These flowers bloom only once in twelve years. But when they do, you see them in such large numbers in the hills that you can’t move an inch without stepping on them.
When I heard about the bloom in October 2006, I drove to Chikmagalur and spent three days wandering the hills, photographing the flowers and the landscape. This image was one of them.