Superb images, Ashwini ji. On 8 Jun 2017 8:59 a.m., "Ashwini Bhatia" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I found a couple of examples of *V. canescens* growing on stone walls > where the runners were clearly visible. I am sharing these here for the > record. > > Thanks. > Ashwini > > On 4 March 2016 at 09:41, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thank you Mr Garg for your generous comments. Violas are proving to be >> very difficult and I saw this very same flower shown as* V. serpens* on >> the Great National Himalayan Park web page this morning. I hope we soon see >> light at the end of this dark tunnel. >> >> Looking forward to validation and advice. >> >> Thanks. >> Ashwini >> >> On 04-Mar-2016, at 9:27 AM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Thanks, Ashwini ji, >> Never seen such wonderful display & explanation in such details with >> photographs. >> My hats off to you. >> >> On 3 March 2016 at 21:57, Ashwini Bhatia <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Violas have been troubling me for more than a year now. Each time I >>> think I have found a positive ID, I am to be proved wrong. I hope this time >>> I am correct. I am basing my ID on the following keys; >>> >>> 1. *V. canescens* is pale lilac in colour with a stigma that is blunt >>> at the apex. >>> 2. The stipules are fringed. >>> 3. Leaves and stems are densely pubescent. >>> >>> I have been confusing this with *V. serpens* a lot and its synonym *V. >>> serpens* var. *canescens* did not help. Also in some places both >>> species are wrongly treated as one. I will treat the comparison between the >>> two species in a separate email. >>> >>> *Viola canescens*—Himalayan White Violet >>> Above Mcleodganj, Dharamshala, HP >>> 1800m >>> 03 March 2016. >>> >>> Thanks. >>> Ashwini >>> >>> >>> >>> Pale lilac flowers with a lot of white. The lower lip with dark veins >>> shorter and narrower than other petals; >>> <_MG_1807_03Mar2016.jpg> >>> >>> White tufts on the inside of petals (only the side pair?); >>> <_MG_1810_03Mar2016.jpg> >>> <_MG_1815_03Mar2016.jpg> >>> >>> Fringed scales at the base of the plant; >>> <_MG_1819_03Mar2016.jpg> >>> >>> Downy leaves; >>> <_MG_1823_03Mar2016.jpg> >>> >>> The blunt apex of stigma is visible; >>> <_MG_1840_03Mar2016.jpg> >>> <_MG_1889_03Mar2016.jpg> >>> <_MG_1986_03Mar2016.jpg> >>> >>> The habit and individual parts; >>> <_MG_1997_03Mar2016.jpg> >>> >>> -- >>> 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- more than 2500 members & 2,25,000 messages on 18.6.15) or >> Efloraofindia >> website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species >> database of more than 11,000 species & 2,00,000 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 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.
