Thanks, Chadwell ji On 10 Nov 2016 11:12 pm, "[email protected]" < [email protected]> wrote:
> This is definitely Arisaema tortuosum - quite distinctive fruiting heads > and foliage. May I recommend on future occasions you remove a few seeds > from the reddish/orange pulp and photograph these close-up. They are also > distinctive, quite large for the genus and mottled. The seeds can then be > placed in the soil near to the plant - you will have acted as a bird or > other creature who would have eaten the seed and as it passed through its > digestive system this pulp which contain germination inhibiting chemicals > is removed and as the animal excretes the seed (often dispersed some > distance away) it may drop somewhere where a fresh plant can grow. > > Whilst the species is distinctive it exhibits considerable variation with > a number of varieties recognised. 'Enumeration of the Flowering Plants of > Nepal' says both var. tortuosum and var. curvatum are found - the former > variety being widespread in the country from 1300-2900m. > > Collet in 'Flora Simlensis' separated Arisaema helliborifolium (Arisaema > tortuosum var. helliborifolium) and Arisaema curvatum. He said that > A.helliborifolium is the first to appear (the plants die down completely > over winter) sometimes coming into flower before the monsoon. > > 'Flowers of the Himalaya' give a range of Kashmir to SW China in forests, > shrubberies and on open slopes. It is often the tallest of Arisaemas at > times exceeding 1.5m. > > 'Araceae' for Flora of Pakistan gives a distribution of temperate and > subtropical Himalaya, Baluchistan, Western China & North Myanamar. > > *Certainly a robust, prominent, large species found at the lowest levels > of any Arisaema in the Himalaya.* > > On Wednesday, November 9, 2016 at 3:21:57 PM UTC, Saroj Kumar Kasaju wrote: > >> Dear Members, >> >> Location: Pilot Baba Ashram, Bhaktapur , Nepal >> Altitude: 5500 ft. >> Date: 26 September 2016 >> >> *Arisaema tortuosum (Wall.) Schott (accepted name) ??* >> >> Thank you. >> >> Saroj Kasaju >> > -- > 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. > -- 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.
