All  my brothers and sisters had assembled at our 
native place in Kerala to celebrate our father’s 100th birthday during November 
2011. I was moving around the outer fencing and I found a wild growth of 
vegetation surrounding it. There were some unknown creepers as well with their 
beautiful blooms. It became irresistible for me and I called for a camera to 
honour them. Some of them looked closer to what we grow at our homes. It is not 
that they never grew in the past, simply put it,  they remained ignored. Perhaps 
they were considered as outcastes. I would appeal to my knowledgeable friends 
to help in their identification. Here they go: 
 












