Thanks, Ashwini ji, for the wonderful insight. On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 at 18:58, Ashwini Bhatia <[email protected]> wrote:
> *Valeriana jatamansi* > March 2019, > Mcleodganj and above, Dharamshala, HP > > I have been looking at the flowers of our valerians here. In much of the > literature on the species *V. jatamansi*, it is mentioned that the male > and female flowers are found on different plants. I decided to have a > closer look at the flowers and found the following: > > There are two kinds of flowers on different plants, one larger than the > other. > > The smaller flowers are barely 3mm across with a style (with a trifid > stigma) projecting well beyond the corolla tube. Inside the tube are three > stamens whose anthers are below the neck of the corolla tube. Unless the > stamens are sterile, the flower is hermaphrodite and not a female flower > even though only style is visible. > > The larger, almost twice the size, has three stamens projecting out with > white anthers and one hair-like style which seems to grow longer after the > stamens drop their anthers. That stigma too becomes trifid later. Here > again, unless the stigma is sterile, the flower is hermaphrodite. > > It can very well be that the stamens of the smaller and stigma of the > larger are sterile and flowers are dominantly male and female. Otherwise > they are merely pin and thrum type. > > Please advise. > > With thanks and regards, > Ashwini > > > > -- > 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.
