Thanks so much for the id, Chadwell ji and Garg ji! I almost thought it was a naturally growing plant since I could see it everywhere on the hills. :)
On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 5:37 AM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Chadwell ji > > On 24 Nov 2016 7:04 am, "[email protected]" < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Not much of an image to go on but this is distinctive. Commonly known in >> UK as 'Montbretia' this is Crocosmia x crocosmifolia. Local forms typically >> with tawny-orange flowers but specific cultivars available. According to >> Flora of Bhutan found in Darjeeling Town etc. and Sikkim (Yoksum etc.) - a >> hybrid of horticultural origin from S.African parents commonly cultivated >> in gardens in Darjeeling and Sikkim, less frequently in Bhutan but not >> becoming naturalised. Close to Gladiolus (Iridaceae - the Iris family). >> >> Commonly cultivated in UK and very tolerant of shade; naturalised by >> sides of lakes, rivers and ditches in hedge-banks, on waste ground and in >> woods, spreading by vegetative means and by seed. >> >> First raised at Nancy, France by Victor Lemoine by crossing C.potsii with >> C.aurea. Flowered for first time in 1880. >> >> Even found it within the 2km x 2km tetrad local tetrad I am recording >> towards the Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland's 2020 Atlas in waste >> ground at the edge of a wood where garden refuse was dumped. >> >> On Wednesday, November 23, 2016 at 5:43:29 AM UTC, Sonali Verma wrote: >> >>> Please help me identify this. >>> >> -- >> 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.
