Satish ji The long persistent feathery style makes this plant being called Old man's beard.
-- Dr. Gurcharan Singh 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/ On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Satish Phadke <[email protected]>wrote: > An interesting character of the Genus Clematis is nicely seen in the > pictures posted. > The fruit of Clematis is called as an Achene. > The important character of Clematis is the fruit has a *persistent > style*which is feathery and helps the dispersal of seeds by wind. You can > search > earlier pictures of different species of Clematis posted on the group some > of them show this. > We know of persistent calyx in Brinjal Tomato etc. This is persistent > style. > I would like to know from the botanists whether any other genus shows this > character?(Must be quite a many) > Dr Satish Phadke > > > On 7 February 2010 22:04, Neil Soares <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> Clematis hedysarifolia [locally called Bendrichi-vel] was fruiting at my >> farm at Shahapur today. Sending a few photographs. >> With regards, >> Neil Soares. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "efloraofindia" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<indiantreepix%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<indiantreepix%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. > -- Dr. Gurcharan Singh 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en.
