Thank you Wojciech. There are a few Balsam plants here with varying degree of yellow. I agree they are most likely to be all Impatiens scabrida. Could the pink one be Impatiens bicolor?
Regards, Ashwini On 05-Oct-2014, at 4:33 pm, Wojciech Adamowski <[email protected]> wrote: > Yellow one should be I. scabrida, if the plant is less or more hairy and > upper petal has a horn. > As far as I saw on different pictures there is variability in shade of yellow > and quantity of markings on lower sepal. > White/rosa one is rather not I. balfourii, at least not the form cultivated > and escaped in Europe. Proportion of upper petal to lateral petals is > different. > In European I. balfourii upper petal is rather small and flowers distinctly > bicolored - white and rosa or white and lavender (white upper petal and upper > lateral petal), with only minor yellow markings inside lower sepal. Lower > lateral petal is bigger and broader than in your plant. > However, I can decide which species is matching your plant. > Best regards Wojciech > > > > 10:07 niedziela, 2014-10-5, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> napisał(a): > > > Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. > Some earlier relevant feedback: > efi page on Impatiens scabrida (Rugged Yellow Balsam) & FOI page on > Impatiens balfourii (Balfour's Balsam) > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Ashwini Bhatia <[email protected]> > Date: 28 September 2014 19:16 > Subject: [efloraofindia:201746] Balsam > To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> > > > The Rugged Yellow Balsam looked yellower this morning germinating a doubt if > I was identifying it correctly. The other pink one should be Balfour's > Balsam, but again I could not be certain. Please advise. > > About 1800m, Mcleodganj, Dharamshala, HP > 28 September 2014 > > Thanks. > Ashwini > > <IMG_5567_iPhone28Sep14.jpg><IMG_5569_iPhone28Sep14.jpg> > -- > 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. > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a thousand species & > eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged > alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as per Creative > Commons license attached with each image. > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group (largest in the world- > more than 2400 members & 2,00,000 messages on 9.9.14) or Efloraofindia > website (with a species database of more than 10,000 species & 2,00,000 > images). Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia. > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. > > -- 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.
