Though I know hardly anything about butterflies, some did catch my eye and lens this time….a lifer for me was the

SALMON ARAB:

The COMMON EMIGRANT is truly common, yet beautiful:' I wonder why the PIONEER was named so! This GREY PANSY also looked at peace, settled on a leaf: I saw two butterflies which Abhijna id's as SWIFTS: This one, she says, might be a RICE SWIFT: Even I knew the COMMON PIERROT: and the ANGLED CASTOR: Abhijna also id'd the BUSH BROWN for me. And Karthik id'd this ORCHARD SPIDER: This TREE GECKO looked pretty: as did this GRASSHOPPER: a pretty MUSHROOM had, er, mushroomed overnight: I could not get an id for this plant: ..but I know that this plant belongs to the family Begonacae: As usual, the GLORY LILY (Gloriosa superba) was blooming everywhere: and I wanted to capture this SHANKA PUSHPI (flower in the shape of a conch) from which, medicines are made.

However, my closing image is of some strange, cobra-shaped formations at the base of this tree that we saw on safari:

I now call it the “nAga marA” :) Could someone id it for me please?