wow, very beautiful plant
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> 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/d/optout. > -- Muthu Karthick, N Care Earth Trust #15, second main road, Thillai ganga nagar, Chennai - 600 061 Mob: 0091 96268 33911 -- 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/d/optout.
