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watawala is the coolest place in sri lanka which is most supportive to tea cultivation. the best quality tea is produced here due to it's fine climate for tea cultivation. The teas produced from these districts are referred to by Tea Trade as teas from “ Dimbula , Uva,  Nuwara Eliya , Uda Pussellawa, Kandy and Ruhuna”. The true connoisseurs may select teas from a sub district or even a single garden where the uniqueness is unmatched

It's a view of Queen's Berry tea estate, bogahawatha,sri Lanka. A cloudy morning I was going on that way and really enjoyed this view

Flower is the reproductive part of a plant which is containing androecium and gynoecium or male and the female parts of a flower. Pollination is the process which is helping to give new features to the next generation of the respective plant.

Found in countries such as, Sri Lanka, Africa to Burma. A medium sized reddish brown butterfly with rounded wing spices  and rather long wings. It is brightly colored with a remarkable range of colors. The wings are somewhat transparent. The upper side is filled with black spots and small markings. The marginal band of the hind wing on the upper sides is black and has small white spots. The corresponding band on the underside is much wider, but is almost entirely occupied by large white spots. Female is dull brown in color and the wings are more transparent than the male. The female possess what appears to be a post- copulatory sphragis (plug) covering the ostium. A common butterfly found throughout the island from sea level to 2000 feet elevation. It is a butterfly of open spaces with lots of sunshine such as, edges of forests and cultivated fields, roadsides, property boundaries with over-grown vegetation, coastal sand dunes and secondary forests. It may be seen th...

Most people in sri lanka can identify an Araliya tree no matter how little they know about trees. With its gnarled branches, long leaves and distinctive flowers, it is easily one of the most common and identifiable trees in Sri Lanka.The bark is grey and scaly. The branches have a swollen appearance and thicken towards the ends. A cut made on any part of the tree will exude a milky, sticky sap. The leaves are smooth and shiny, upto one foot long with well defined veins. They appear at the ends of the branches. The flowers which appear in clusters, again at the end of the branches, are scented. The petals are waxy and the centre of the flower is usually a different colour to the rest of it. For example the white flowers generally have a yellow centre. There are many varieties ranging from deep crimson to orange to white. The flowering season is from March to May but throughout the year the tree usually produces flowers.  The Temple tree is so called because the scented ...