We have spent quite some time on finding what is *Nymphaea rubra* Roxb. ex Andrews. Now BSI will help us find - http://efloraindia.nic.in/efloraindia/taxonList.action?id=1592&type=3.
I hope this is the species we were looking for. And as I wrote in my earlier reply - this thread https://groups.google.com/d/msg/indiantreepix/JdflalC07Kg/FkzRNND-8s0J too. Thank you Regards surajit koley a *non-botanist* member of efloraofIndia google group On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 9:26 PM, surajit koley < [email protected]> wrote: > This set of photographs are from a place near Burdwan, recorded today. > This may be the same species as the originals in this thread. The only > difference is leaves are both red or green or reddish green. > > This is semi-wild, semi in the sense that one villager says, "Years ago we > had planted one plant collected elsewhere, thereafter it covered the entire > pool." > > Thank you > Regards > > > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 9:31 PM, surajit koley < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Thank you Garg Sir, thanks to Santhan Ji. I have developed a doubt if we >> have any *N. rubra* in our database at all, in fact none of the posts >> shows red flowers, all are shades of pink, only the one by Balkar Sir >> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/indiantreepix/JdflalC07Kg/FkzRNND-8s0J> >> may be called close to red (anthers only). >> Regards >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 5:49 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> From: Ponnutheerthagiri Santhan <[email protected]> >>> Date: 20 November 2014 17:46 >>> Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:205642] Hooghly : Nymphaea lotus var. >>> pubescens (Willd.) Hook. f. & Thomson >>> To: "J.M. Garg" <[email protected]> >>> >>> >>> *Nymphaea* *rubra* Roxb. ex Andrews >>> >>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 4:29 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. >>>> >>>> Some earlier relevant feedback: >>>> This needs some further investigation. N. pubescens is characterised by >>>> sharply dentate leaves (which it has) and pubescent leaf under surface (it >>>> is glabrous here). Can you check with original description of N. rubra for >>>> leaf under surface. >>>> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >>>> >>>> Thank you Sir, i have also noted the point (leaf under surface), that >>>> is why i followed the FoC where the site informs, "cultivated forms of var. >>>> *pubescence* with red flowers, originating from India....", thinking >>>> that cultivated forms may have variable character (s). >>>> However, Flora Indica records - >>>> 1) *N. rubra* R. : Leaves sub-orbicular, margins sharply >>>> sinuate-toothed, downy underneath. Flowers red...... A native of India. It >>>> flowers during the rainy season, In Bengal there is a smaller rose coloured >>>> variety (differs in numbers of stamens & stigma rays). >>>> 2) *N. lotus* Willd.. 2. 1153 : Leaves orbicularly peltate, sharply >>>> sinuate toothed, downy underneath..... It differs from *N. rubra* in >>>> the colour of the flowers only. There is a beautiful rare variety with pink >>>> coloured flowers..... the white sorts is found common in pools,... it >>>> flowers more or less the whole year...... >>>> 3) *N. versicolor* R. : Leaves oval, peltate, repand-dentate.... A >>>> native of Bengal, ...two varieties, ...one pure white and the other pink of >>>> various shades. >>>> Compared to above entry by Haines :- >>>> *N. lotus* L. : Leaves usually pubescent beneath.... (two var.) *lotus* >>>> proper >>>> and *rubra*. >>>> Compared to above the author(s) of http://archive.lib.cmu.ac. >>>> th/full/T/2008/biol0708wl_ch3.pdf informs (in Thailand) leaves of *N. >>>> rubra* Roxb. ex Salisb. orbicular, dark reddish both above and below, >>>> becoming greenish above with age, below pubescent; veins about 9 pairs.... >>>> Attached here larger photographs for your perusal. >>>> Thank you very much for taking care. >>>> Regards >>>> >>>> Suarjit >>>> >>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>>> From: surajit koley <[email protected]> >>>> Date: 8 November 2014 23:01 >>>> Subject: [efloraofindia:205642] Hooghly : Nymphaea lotus var. pubescens >>>> (Willd.) Hook. f. & Thomson >>>> To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> >>>> >>>> >>>> I have used the name as found in FoC. 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