Happy to see an exclusive alpine plant. With it comes the refreshing air of high altitudes. Makes large thickets in many alpine zones. Flower buds for next growing season will be formed one year earlier in this plant. DSRawat Pantnagar
On Tuesday, June 25, 2013 6:02:36 PM UTC+5:30, Gurcharan Singh wrote: > > *Cassiope fastigiata* (Wall.) D. Don, Edinburgh New Philos. J. 17: 158. > 1834. > > Had collected specimens of this beautiful alpine shrublet for herbarium > between 1970 to 1974 in Kashmir. Was lucky to locate it around Tungnath > temple in Uttarakhand on June 1, 2013. > > A much-branched tufted shrublet usually less than 20 cm tall with closely > packed thick small leaves arranged in four rows; flowers axillary, pendent, > white on up to 7 mm long pedicels; calyx with brown to purple oblong-ovate, > 4-5 mm long lobes; corolla white, bell-shaped, 5-9 mm long with 2-4 mm long > outcurved lobes; capsule globose, 2-3 mm in diam. > > -- > 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
