Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. Some earlier relevant feedback:
Seems to be Fagopyrum esculentum... -- Regards, Dr. Nidhan Singh 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? From Chris Chadwell ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Santhan P <[email protected]> Date: 21 September 2016 at 09:29 Subject: [efloraofindia:251757] Polygonaceae undershrub To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> <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 email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- With regards, J.M.Garg 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the world- around 2700 members & 2,40,000 messages on 31.3.16) or Efloraofindia website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species database of more than 11,000 species & 2,20,000 images). The whole world uses my Image Resource <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. -- 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.
