So many species ! Awesome photographs. On Wednesday, February 12, 2020 at 1:57:09 PM UTC+5:30, Gurcharan Singh wrote: > > Cercis, commonly known as Redbud is an interesting genus of deciduous > trees in which flowers appear on trunk and main branches before leaves > giving beautiful display. The important species can be distinguished as > under: > 1. Flowers in elongated racemes on long peduncles...............2 > - Flowers in umbellate clusters, peduncle scarcely visible......3 > 2. Raceme short, rachis less than 2 cm long, leaves glabrous or > sparsely pubescent in axils of veins, legume basally rounded and > obtuse, dorsal and ventral sutures > unequal...................................C. glabra > - Racemes longer with up to 10 cm long rachis, leaves > abaxially puberulent, densely hairy on veins; legume basally > attenuate, dorsal and ventral sutures equal in > length.........................C. racemosa > 3. Leaves ovate-cordate to triangular, tip acute to acuminate, > Fruit less than 15 mm > broad...........................................................4 > - Leaves rounded to reniform, apex often emarginate, fruit > broader than 15 > mm........................................................................5 > > 4. Leaves with narrow translucent border, flowers 15-18 mm long...C. > chinensis > - Leaves without translucent border, flowers 6-12 mm long.........C. > canadensis > (leaves dull green above, apex abruptly acuminate....var. canadensis; > leaves glossy above, narrowly rounded or acutish at tip (glabrous > beneath...var...texensis, pubescent beneath var mexicana) > 5. Leaves coriaceous to subcoriaceous, leaves less than 10 cm > broad, flowers 10-15 mm > long..................................................C. occidentalis > - Leaves thin, not coriaceous, broader than 10 cm, flowers > 15-20 mm > long.........................................................................C. > > siliquastrum > > Cercis canadensis var. canadensis from Fremont, California > > . > > > > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Mob: 9810359089 > https://sing96.wixsite.com/mysite-1 >
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