Beautiful ......Character photography! Dr Satish Phadke
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote: > *Impatiens glandulifera* Royle, Ill. Pl. Himal. Mount. 151. t. 28, f. 2. > 1834. > Syn: *Impatiens* *roylei *Walpers > > Common names: Himalayan balsam, Indian balsam, policeman's helmet, Royl's > balsam > > Tall glabrous herb up to 2 m tall, thick and somewhat fleshy, often tinged > red; leaves opposite or whorled, up to 15 cm long, lanceolate to > elliptic-ovate, sharply serrate, teeth glandt-tipped, long-acuminate; > petiole 2-4 cm long; flowers large, pink, crimson to white, 3-4 cm long > excluding spur, in flat-topped clusters at ends of branches, sometimes > paniculate, peduncles up to 10 cm long; bracts elliptic-ovate, 7-10 mm > long; lateral sepals obliquely cordate, 6-9 mm long; lower sepal > bell-shaped to saccate, suddenly contrated into short cylylindrical > incurved spur about 6 mm long; upper petal rounded, 7-9 mm long, 11-13 mm > broad, crested on back; lateral united petals 25-28 mm long; capsule > clavate, 15-25 mm long, nodding. > > Similar to I. sulcata in large flowers and spur but easily differentiated > by opposite to whorled leaves, serrate margins and clavate capsules. > > Photographed from Kashmir, growing along stream banks. > > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
