Thank you Ushadi. Will wait for Dr Chauhan's reply. Ashwini On 12-Apr-2015, at 12:01 pm, Ushadi Micromini <[email protected]> wrote:
> seems to be correct > morel > May be Dr CHuahan will see thos post and reply > > usha di > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Ashwini Bhatia <[email protected]> > wrote: > Friday, on my walk I met a young local boy collecting something on the > slopes. Curious, I asked him what he was collecting and he was kind enough to > climb down to show me a mushroom he was collecting with another woman. He > told me that it was called Jhinjhiri (or chinchiri, I can't say exactly) and > once dried fetched good price in the medicine market. A kilo of dried stuff > went for about Rs 2000 he said. He allowed me to photograph it and I am > sharing it with you. > > Another local woman later told me that she had eaten it in a vegetable dish > but added that it was rare to get. If I am not wrong it looks like a Common > Morel or Morchella esculenta. > > Dr Narain Singh Chauhan mentions it in his book for its medicinal properties > (p. 268, Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of Himachal Pradesh, 2nd ed.) and use > as food. > > Please advise. > > Morchella esculenta (Common Morel) > Above Mcleodganj, Dharamshala, HP > 1800m > 10 April 2015 > > Thanks. > Ashwini > > <IMG_2974_10Aprl15.jpg><IMG_2977_10Aprl15.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. > > > > -- > 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.
