yes, I also think this a variety of rose. Waiting for more answers. Regards
Mani. On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 8:10 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > ------------------------------ > *From: * "nabha meghani" <[email protected]> > *Sender: * [email protected] > *Date: *Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:01:02 +0200 > *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 > >
