Thanks, Dr. Volkmar. On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 at 10:00, Volkmar Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at 2:58:55 PM UTC+1, Gurcharan Singh wrote: >> >> *Impatiens edgeworthii* Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 1:476. 1874 >> Syn: *Impatiens* *chrysantha* Hook. f. >> >> Tall robust annual herb, up to 70 cm tall, branched, glabrous; leaves >> concentrated towards top, large, 6-20 cm long, elliptic, long-acuminate, >> crenate-serrate, serrations tipped with glandular bristles; flowers yellow, >> streaked red in throat, 25-30 mm long, in subterminal racemes on up to 10 >> cm long peduncle; pedicel 10-12 mm long; bracts broadly ovate, 2-3 mm long, >> keeled; lateral sepals large, green, rounded3-5 mm long, apiculate, crested >> in middle; lower sepal narrowly funnel-shaped, gradually narrowed into >> 20-30 mm long recurved spur; upper petal orange, rounded with green crest, >> bilobed at tip; lateral united petals with rounded wings, whitish towards >> tip; capsule erect, linear, up to 2.5 cm long. >> > > > > >> Common in forest areas in Kashmir and along streams. >> >> -- >> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >> Retired Associate Professor >> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 >> http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ >> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >> > > > I am very glad to see that Indian botanists are becoming aware of > Impatiens edgeworthii as a problem. > > Last year in Central Germany about 1 million of this species did grow in > Central Germany, most of them in the Leinawald (Leina forest) near > Altenburg. > > From the beginning I was aware the descriptions of this species in the > Flora of Pakistan and elsewhere did not agree with what we are seeing in > Germany. > > I did publish on the ecology > > *http://www.v-weiss.de/Impatiens-edgeworthii.pdf* > <http://www.v-weiss.de/Impatiens-edgeworthii.pdf> > > or > > > *http://botanischer-verein-sachsen-anhalt.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Flo-Kart_2013_015-029_Weiss.pdf* > <http://botanischer-verein-sachsen-anhalt.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Flo-Kart_2013_015-029_Weiss.pdf> > > and a monograph on Impatiens species in Central Europe, see > > > *https://www.amazon.de/rote-Pest-gr%C3%BCner-Sicht-Natursch%C3%BCtzern/dp/370201506X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426256415&sr=1-1&keywords=Die+rote+Pest* > <https://www.amazon.de/rote-Pest-gr%C3%BCner-Sicht-Natursch%C3%BCtzern/dp/370201506X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426256415&sr=1-1&keywords=Die+rote+Pest> > > > > > I did upload a number of additional pictures of Impatiens edgeworthii from > Germany to my twitter and facebook accounts. > > > > From my point of view, to solve the riddle of this and related species > finally, it would be necessary to make controlled experiments and crossings > with seed from Kashmir and Germany. However, until now did find any > partners for cooperation in India or Pakistan. > > > > 17.3 2019 > > *Dr. rer. nat. habil. Dr. phil. habil. Volkmar Weiss* > > Leipzig, Germany > > *www.v-weiss.de* <http://www.v-weiss.de/> , [email protected] > > > > > -- > 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 2975 members & 3,00,000 messages on 25.7.18) or Efloraofindia website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species database of more than 12,000 species & 3,00,000 images of which 1,00,000 are directly displayed). 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.
