Thank you for the information.
On Sat, 20 Apr 2019, 08:03 Ashwini Bhatia, <[email protected]> wrote: > Following this observation I thought it would be important to see if the > 'male' plants seed (proving they are not male but hermaphrodite). I found > both the larger and the smaller varieties seeding. Am I correct in deducing > that both flowers intact are hermaphrodites and in our populations there > are no separate male and female flowers? Please advise. > > Thank you. > Ashwini > > *Valeriana jatamansi* > Photos shot on April 8, 2019 > 1800m > Dal Lake, Dharamshala, HP > > > On Fri, 5 Apr 2019 at 15:57, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 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.
