Kurinji Flowers 2018 !!exclusive!! — Munnar

Botanically, the Kurinji’s synchronized blooming (technically called mast seeding ) is a survival strategy to overwhelm predators. In 2018, it succeeded spectacularly. The hills hummed with bees, butterflies, and the clicks of a million cameras.

Once every twelve years, the lush green hills of Munnar in Kerala, India, trade their emerald cloak for a breathtaking blanket of violet-blue. In 2018, nature unfolded one of its rarest spectacles: the mass blooming of the Neelakurinji ( Strobilanthes kunthiana ). munnar kurinji flowers 2018

For the local , the 2018 bloom was not just a tourist attraction but a celestial calendar. Their ancestors have long used the Kurinji's lifecycle to measure age and time—twelve blooms marking a lifetime. munnar kurinji flowers 2018