Lantern flowers of the Ceropegia genus open in the post-monsoon hills

Late in the monsoon is when the lantern flowers open in the hills south of Pune. Two of them have been turning up over the past several weeks: Eyed Ceropegia (Ceropegia oculata), logged five times between August 20 and August 28 below Sinhagad fort, around Chirmodi and Phanshi in