May please exclude possibility of Verpa bohemica by looking at the cap. In Morchella cap is firmly attached to axis, it is free from axis in Verpa.
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 Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 9:00 PM, Ashwini Bhatia <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you Dr Garg. How can we contact Prof Reddy of Thapar Institute as > suggested by Dr Kaviyarasan? > > Regards, > Ashwini > > On 18-Apr-2015, at 8:37 pm, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks, Venkatesan ji. > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Venkatesan Kaviyarasan > Date: 18 April 2015 at 20:20 > Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:220930] Morchella esculenta?/ABAPR09 > To: "J.M. Garg" <[email protected]> > > > Dear Dr.Garg, > > Thank you for the nice picture of an* Morchella sp.* Recently > Prof.Sudhakara Reddy , of Thapar Institute has published an interesting > paper on the biodiversity and molecular taxonomy of Himachal Morchell a spp. > > In his personal communication he said that there is no esculentta spp in > India. Please refer his paper or contact him for further clarification. > > With kind regards > Kavi > > On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 12:57 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Ashwini Bhatia <[email protected]> >> Date: 12 April 2015 at 11:48 >> Subject: [efloraofindia:220930] Morchella esculenta?/ABAPR09 >> To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> >> Cc: Narain Singh Chauhan <[email protected]> >> >> >> 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. >> >> >> >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg >> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> >> The whole world uses my Image Resource >> <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a >> thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. >> (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). 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