Good details & wonderful first two shots, Satish ji. On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:14 AM, satish phadke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> > <http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__QrJWaqfjh8/SSxHIdoRuGI/AAAAAAAABZ4/tg9DBaXOApQ/s1600-h/PoppyDSCN9302.jpg> > > > <http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__QrJWaqfjh8/SSxHIXMJw1I/AAAAAAAABZw/9MQUxCfMVuE/s1600-h/PoppyDSCN9301.jpg> > > > <http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__QrJWaqfjh8/SSxHIAg79tI/AAAAAAAABZo/-gDuuOax-yw/s1600-h/DSCN5284a.jpg> > > *Argemone mexicana* > > *FAMILY OF THE WEEK : PAPAVERACEAE* > > In India this family has 5 genera and about 20 species mostly confined to > the Himalayas. > > *Vegetative characters:* > > Mostly perennial herbs with a milky or coloured latex. > > The leaves are radical or alternate, exstipulate, simple and entire or more > often lobed or divided. > > *Inflorescence and flowers:* > > The flowers are solitary at the end of main or lateral branches. Sometimes > racemes or panicles. The flower buds are often nodding due to more rapid > growth of one side of flower stalk. > > The flowers are large showy, complete, hermaphrodite, actinomorphic, di-or > tri merous and hypogynous. > > The sepals are two or three(Argemone), free or united, imbricate and > caduceus. > > The petals are four to six, biseriate, imbricate and often rolled or > crumpled in bud. > > The androecium consists of numerous free stamens in several whorls; the > filaments are slender; and the anthers are erect, dithecous, extrorse and > opening lengthwise. > > The gynoecium is of two to many carpels, and it is syncarpousThe ovary is > superior and unilocular. The style is very short or absent and the stigmas > are as many as carpels, radiating connate and opposite or alternating the > placenta. > > *Fruits and seeds:* > > The fruit is a many seeded capsule opening by pores or by valves under the > lobes of persistent stigmas. The seeds are small with a minute embryo and a > copious fleshy fleshy or oily endosperm. > > *Pollination and seed dispersal:* > > Self and cross pollination.Flowers do not contain nectar and are visited by > pollen seeking insects. The seeds are usually dispersed by wind or by birds, > animals or human beings. The seeds of *Papaver* and *Argemone* are > dispersed by adhesion to animals, carts or feet of humans. > > Examples: > > *Papaver somniferum* L: Opium poppy > > *Papaver rhoeas* (Corn poppy) > > *Papaver nudicaule* (Iceland poppy) > > *Papaver orientale* (Oriental poppy) > > *Argemone mexicana* > > > -- > > http:// satishphadke.blogspot.com > > > > -- With regards, J.M.Garg "We often ignore the beauty around us" Creating Awareness about Indian Flora & Fauna: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 For learning about our trees & plants, please visit/ join Google e-group (Indiantreepix) http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "indiantreepix" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
