Thank you Dr Singh. I looked at all the pictures I took that day of the fungus and realised I had failed to take a picture that shows how the cap is attached to the stem. So I have no way to check now but Verpa bohemica is a distinct possibility.
Regards, Ashwini > On 19-Apr-2015, at 12:27 pm, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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://www.gurcharanfamily.com/> > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ <http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/> > > On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 9:00 PM, Ashwini Bhatia <[email protected] > <mailto:[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] > <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Ashwini Bhatia <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> >> Date: 12 April 2015 at 11:48 >> Subject: [efloraofindia:220930] Morchella esculenta?/ABAPR09 >> To: efloraofindia <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> >> Cc: Narain Singh Chauhan <[email protected] >> <mailto:[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] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix >> <http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <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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