Beautiful pictures. Coming to some character searching from the pictures. Bilaterally symmetric flowers. Upper sepals hood like. These blue coloured are sepals. Underneath them will be 2 petals.Am I right? Important aspects related to the plant have already been mentioned by you as regards poisonous nature etc. Very nice.
Dr Satish Phadke On 14 January 2015 at 18:46, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Nidhan ji and Rawat ji > There is a small alpine garden maintained at Khillenmarg (rather near > Kongdor) the first landing of Gandola at about 3000 m, just above the tree > line, growing plants collected from surrounding areas. A few medicinal > plants are grown here. > > 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/ > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 4:40 PM, D.S Rawat <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> A very importan medicinal plant. >> Flora of India by BSI consider it different from *A.violaceum* var. >> *robustum* though the TPL 2013 consider both of them as same. I still >> remember to have seen few large specimens of A.violaceum in Kedarnath area >> (4000m) which matched to *A.violaceum* var *robustum* of Flora of India >> but those were different from this plant. Taxonomy of Aconites in Western >> Himalaya is far less satisfactory and need revisionary study based not >> merely on herbarium specimens but also on live collections. >> >> >> On Sunday, January 11, 2015 at 9:27:19 AM UTC+5:30, Gurcharan Singh wrote: >>> >>> *Aconitum chasmanthum* Stapf ex Holmes, Mus. Report, Pharm. Soc. Great >>> Britain 1903 >>> syn: *Aconitum napellus* Hook.f. & Thoms. (non L.); ; *Aconitum* >>> *chasmanthum* subsp. *baltistanicum* Qureshi & Chaudhri; *Aconitum* >>> *kurramense* Qureshi & Chaudhri; *Aconitum* *violaceum* var. *robustum* >>> Stapf >>> >>> >>> Common names: Indian Napellus, Ban-bal-nag, Beshmolo, Mori >>> >>> Tall leafy plant, up to 90 cm with ruberous root; leaves similar, though >>> upper slightly smaller, 3-8 cm broad, cut alomost up to base into linear >>> segments; flowers blue or purplish, in up to 30 cm long racemes; upper >>> sepal curved back helmet-shaped, lateral oborbicular to nearly square; >>> petals (nectaries) 2-5 with 5-7 mm long claw; carpels usually 5, follicles >>> oblong, 10-15 mm, truncate. >>> >>> Often confused with A. napellus, this species is distributed from >>> Chitral to Kashmir at higher altitudes.The whole plant is highly toxic >>> - simple skin contact has caused numbness in some people. The dried >>> root is analgesic, anodyne, diaphoretic, diuretic, irritant and sedative. >>> The root is a rich source of active alkaloids, containing around 3%. It is >>> best harvested as soon as the plant dies down in the autumn. This is a very >>> poisonous plant and should only be used with extreme caution and under the >>> supervision of a qualified practitioner. >>> >>> Photographed from Apharwat, Kashmir in August, growing along forest >>> margins. It has also been introduced into newly developed alpine garden >>> near Kongdor, middle stop of Gondola above Gulmarg. >>> >>> 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. >> > > -- > 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. > -- 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 an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
