very nice info, Gurcharanji what chemicals in the leaves would lead to whitening, some oxidizer/s as in the TINOPOL of decades ago?
do you by any chance have pictures of the whole plant and its habitat? or even as a hedge? usha di On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 8:02 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > *Justicia spicigera* Schltdl., Linnaea 7: 395-396 395 1832. > syn: *Jacobinia* *atramentaria* (Benth.) S.F. Blake; *Jacobinia* > *mohintli* (Nees) Hemsl.; *Jacobinia* *spicigera* (Schltdl.) L.H. Bailey; > *Justicia* *scarlatina* (S.F. Blake) V.A.W. Graham > > Evergreen shrub with 4-angled stems, oblong-lanceolate to ovate up to 15 > cm long leaves, and orange or red flowers in one-sided racemes; corolla > tube narrow gradually expanding into 2-lipped limb, lower lip coiled. > > Commonly planted in Ridge and in Herbal garden Delhi, usually grown as > hedge. Leaves are placed in water to produce bluing used in whitening in > clothes, also yields a dye used medicinally. > > Common names: Mexican honeysuckle, mohintli, firecracker bush, orange > plume > > > -- > 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://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.
