Yes individual plants in pots as in Indian nurseries' stock as above esp with flowers freshly opened looks very nice, flowers always reminded me of those crepe paper flowers little children are taught to make in the montessori schools, your pictures reminded me of my childhood attempts at being a paper gardener!!! [?]
usha di On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> 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 email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Usha di =========== -- 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.
