Beautiful due to alternate contrasting shades of white and pink and the amazing Lamiaceae shape of the flower!
Dr Satish Phadke On 2 May 2015 at 18:39, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > *Pseudocaryopteris foetida* (D.Don) P.D.Cantino, Syst. Bot. 23:381. 1999 > Syn: *Caryopteris grata* (Wall. ex Walp.) Benth. & Hook.f.; *Clerodendrum > foetidum* D. Don. > > Straggling shrub, branches purplish; leaves lanceolate or elliptic, 4-12 > cm long, crenate-serrate or subentire, acuminate, pubescent. Flowers > purplish, 5-5 cm across, in short axillary cymes; bracts subulate, 2-3 mm > long; calyx 3 cm long, with lobes spreading in fruit, scarcely enlarged in > fruit. Corolla-tube 3-4 mm long, lobes as long lower larger and porple-red > with white border; stamens exserted; capsule subglobose, glabrous, slightly > 4-lobed, 4-5 mm long, red when ripe. > Photographed from Bhageshwar in Uttarakhand. > > > > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
