Yes Tanay, you are really a genius, you reminded me the genus. It is of course Weigela hortensis: deeeply cut calyx with linear lobes, pubescent leaves, corolla tube abruptly expanded above. The name had just slipped off my mind.
-- 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://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 10:05 AM, tanay bose <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Sir Ji, > It can be a bad guess but I think this plant is *Weigela **florida**(Bunge) > DC. I have seen it only once but look very close to this plant. > ** > **Regards** > **Tanay* > > > **** > On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> 090710 shrub for ID from Kashmir >> One of the few plants whose name I have forgotten over the years. Kindly >> help me with identification. >> >> Cultivated shrub, up to 2 m tall >> Leaves simple, opposite, up to cm long, serrulate, elliptic-lanceolate >> Flowers in terminal paniculate clusters, pinkish, darker on the outside, >> up to 6 cm long. >> >> >> -- >> 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://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ <http://people.du.ac.in/%7Esinghg45/> >> >> > > > -- > Tanay Bose > +91(033) 25550676 (Resi) > 9830439691(Mobile) > > >
