Yunan Luculia 

One small place on earth

Yunan Luculia –Luculia intermedia, roadside, Eagle Heights. 

I noticed this fragrant plant on a morning walk at the end of May. 

It flowers in Autumn, brightening the season. It was growing at the entrance to a drive. 

The plant is an evergreen, is native to the Himalayas and reaches a height of three metres. 

The attractive flowers have a hint of pink. In one of them, a minute spider, hardly larger than the head of a pin, was lurking in the folds of a petal.