Thanks Tanay For showing such a nice plant.
-- 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://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:50 PM, tanay bose <[email protected]> wrote: > *Plant Name:** **Drocera burmanii **Vahl.*** > > *Family:** **Droceraceae*** > > *Date/Time- November 2008* > > *Location- Place, Altitude, GPS- Panchmari Reserve Forest, Panchmari > (Madhya Pradesh) * > > *Habitat- Garden/ Urban/ Wild/ Type- Wild* > > *Plant Habit- Tree/ Shrub/ Climber/ Herb-** **Insectivorous plant*** > > *Height/Length- 1.5-2.5cm across (diameter)* > > * * > > *Drosera burmannii*, the *tropical sundew*, is a small, compact species in > the carnivorous plant genus *Drocera*. It normally spans only 2 cm > (0.8 in) in diameter. It is one of the fastest trapping sundews as well, and > its leaves can curl around an insect in only a few seconds, compared to the > minutes or hours it takes other sundews to surround their prey. In nature, > *D. burmannii* is an annual but in cultivation, when grown indoors during > the cold months, it can live for many years. Since *D. burmannii* is an > annual, it produces large amounts of seed. *Drosera burrmannii* has been > considered a powerful rubefacient in hindu medicine. > > *Drosera burmannii* is an herb that produces very short stems and leaves > in a rosette. Each wedge-shaped leaf is typically 8–10 mm long and 5–6 mm > wide. White flowers are produced in groups of 3 to 10 on 6–15 cm (2–6 in) > tall racemose inflorescence, of which there can be one to three per plant. > . <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drosera_burmannii#cite_note-Marchant_FA-4> > > > -- > Tanay Bose > +91(033) 25550676 (Resi) > 9830439691(Mobile) > 9674221362 (Mobile) > > -- > 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]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en.
