This for sure is not Mogra. It appears a rose variety. Look at the sidepose photo, which reveal the shape and sepals, and shose rose shape. See the leaf close up too. Mogra generally has a bud left in centre. Edible property must be in Mogra or else it wouldn't have been put in water. It must be working as a coolent like "wala" remember your mother must be using that too. Decoration part never existed the but I feel no harm. Pankaji can show some more light. Madhuri Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel
-----Original Message----- From: "nabha meghani" <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:01:02 To: Anand Kumar Bhatt<[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Subject: [efloraofindia:40731] Jasmin from my garden June 2010 Hallo, These fotos were taken on 24. june 2010. Now the temperature is going up rapidly and today the shrub is withered. Looking at the fotos I rememberd that in my childhood my mother used to keep the drinking water in an earthen pot called Math in marathi. Refrigerators were not so common in a household in those days. The math kept the water cool. My mother also used to put some mogra (or jai or chameli?) flowers in the water. I have now some questions. What Jasmin I have in the foto? The shrub war there all the time, so I don't know exactly what it is. It has pleasent fragrance like mogra. Is it ok to put these flowers in the drinking water? If ok, then can one eat the flowers e.g. as decoration in the salad too? Are Jasmin / Mogra flowers in general edible? "drinkable?" TIA Nalini Date/Time : 24.june 2010 Location- Place, altitude and GPS: Nalinis garden in Ritterhude near Bremen, Germany Habitat- garden/ urban/wild/type: Garden Plant Habit-tree/shrub/climber/herb: Shrub Height/length: 3 Meters Leaves-type/shape/size Inflorescence type /size: Flowers-size/colour/calyx/bracts: white Fruits type-shape/size/seeds: - Fragrance/odour/pollinator/uses and so on: fragrant, similar to mogra
