I am agreement that this is a *Fagopyrum* - Common Buckwheat (*Fagopyrum esculentum*) is cultivated in the higher inner valleys of the Himalaya incl. Ladakh. These images allow comparison with those of *F.tartaricum* photographed in Ladakh which is also cultivated there. Have not paid much attention to distinguishing between buckwheats before but what about *F.dibotrys (which is not recorded for Ladakh)?* It is similar to *F.esculentum*; the location seems to fit for *F.dibotrys* and it was described as growing wild - though no doubt *F.esculentum* and *F.tartaricum* naturalise? I have seen images on the internet of *F.esculentum* with white flowers incl. the Wikipedia entry but that does not guarantee the image has been correctly identified - and flower colour alone is seldom a reliable taxonomic character (surely a typically pink-flowered plant will have white forms). There has been confusion within previous posts about buckwheats. See Dr Singh's comments about how to distinguish between the two: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!searchin/indiantreepix/Fagopyrum$20dibotrys$20/indiantreepix/pxlsqxCelog/F7TSeKnFZbcJ
In my comments about the images of what we think is *F.tartaricum* taken at Leh, I said there were good images of *F.esculentum* on Wikicommons but perhaps some of them are not of this species? On Wednesday, 21 September 2016 04:59:03 UTC+1, Santhan P wrote: > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-PW6lTwCCaUQ/V-IE7R6cuXI/AAAAAAAAA9M/uaRea8pQh5sWJ_CcP2GIZ0cvJNoyjTxxACLcB/s1600/DSC_0093%2B-%2BCopy.JPG> > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1_nVL4hOCxs/V-IEdefemXI/AAAAAAAAA9I/BuzDF1vOPgozBLtCevbn1v_wRsdhHUYBACLcB/s1600/DSC_0092%2B-%2BCopy.JPG> > > > > > Polygonaceae undershrub, wild, ascending from Haripur way to Manali, > Himachal > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
