Please, Since I live in the USA I only have the Callicarpa americana in my garden. I use the leaves to repel insects and the fruit to make jelly. I am not a botanist but please is there some reason why you did not include the C. tomentosa in your list of possibles? I hope it is permitted for me to post this link so you may see a C. tomentosa photo. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Callicarpa_Tomentosa_17.JPG Thank you, greene/Carmelita
On Monday, October 5, 2015 at 12:46:48 PM UTC-4, surajitkoley wrote: > > I am not familiar with this genus, *Callicarpa*. I photographed these > pics on 24-Sept-2015. I waited for flowers and today i noticed tiny pink > flowers, possibly 4-merous (well, i am still doing without glasses, but > time has come to get one!). > > Unfortunately I didn't have camera with me. Hope i will get flower > pictures tomorrow. But, not guaranteed, for there were only two specimen, > on the 24th last month, in a bamboo thicket whereas today there was only > one. Because, this is the time when villagers collect fuelwood by removing > all sorts of weeds. > > It's only 1.5 ft herb, may grow to a shrub if kept alive! There is > scarcely any trunk, base is woody. Stem cannot be called 4-angled. Entire > plant is woolly. Leaf blades are 15cm or more long, petiole around 2 cm. > > Bengal Plants lists - > > 1. *C. arborea* Roxb. = a tree in Bihar, N,. Bengal, Tirhut, Chittagong > 2. *C. cana* L. = a large shrub, often cultivated, occasionally > naturalised in Central Bengal > 3. *C. macrophylla* Vahl. = 3-8 ft shrub, in all provinces > 4. *C. longifolia* Lam. var. *lanceolaria* = a shrub, Central Bengal, > Tippera, Chittagong > > Botany of Bihar & Orissa licts - > > 1. *C. arborea* Roxb. > 2. *C. macrophylla* Vahl. > > Thank you > Regards > surajit > > -- 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.
