Gurcharan Ji, I came across this plant in the Golden Gate Park, San Francisco and also Sacramento. Got the id on searching. Regards, Aarti
On Friday, February 27, 2015 at 5:05:23 PM UTC+4, Gurcharan Singh wrote: > > It is good to find a plant which you have been seeing so regularly in > California, finally also sold in nurseries in India. > > *Loropetalum* *chinense* var. *rubrum* Yieh, Zhong Guo Yuan Yi Zhuan Kan > (China Bull. Hort. Special Issue). 1942(2): 33. 1942. > > Chinese Fringe Flower > > Evergreen shrub or small tree up to 3 m tall, brnches stellate-pubescent; > leaves ovate, elliptic to obovate, up to 6 cm long, often tinged purple, > densely stellate-pubescent, margin entire, lateral veins 4-8 on each side; > flowers red in a dense up to 16 flowered raceme, on up to 1 cm long > peduncle, pedicel short; sepals ovate, 2-3 mm long; petals 4-6, red, 1-2 cm > long with rounded apex; stamens 4 or 5, anthers ovoid; ovary inferior; > fruit capsule obovoid-globose, 7-8 mm long, with persistent calyx cup. > > Photographed from Indian Tourism Festival, Garden of Five senses, Delhi > > > > 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 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.
