A web search resulted in idying this plant as a *hybrid *of *Philadelphus coronarius* (Hydrangiaceae). Common name: Sweet mock orange! Variety name: Philadelphus Snow White Sensation!
http://www.whiteflowerfarm.com/66130-product.html With regards R. Vijayasankar On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Jency Samuel <[email protected]>wrote: > > The calyx and the serrated leaves seem to point it to belong to rose > variety. > > Jency > --- On *Sun, 11/7/10, Anand Kumar Bhatt <[email protected]>* wrote: > > > From: Anand Kumar Bhatt <[email protected]> > Subject: [efloraofindia:40777] Re: Jasmin from my garden June 2010 > To: "nabha meghani" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, 11 July, 2010, 7:53 AM > > > When I was looking at the enlarged photos, my wife passed by. Her remarks > were: Bada pyara phool hai. gulab hai? Picure no. 4 shows the leaves. I > dont think jasmine has ever got serrated leaves. > In India only one variety of rose is considered edible. that is called > chaitia (as it flowers in March April). Pink and highly fragrant, used for > making rosewater and gulkand. I remember when Gulkand was made at our place > in good old days, the pollen used to be carefully removed. Pluck the petals, > sift them and remove the pollens. > The correct ID of the flower you have can only be given by experts. Let us > wait for them. > Best wishes, > ak > > On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 5:31 PM, nabha meghani > <[email protected]<http://in.mc941.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> 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 > > > > > -- > Anand Kumar Bhatt > A-59, B.S.F.Colony, Airport Road > Gwalior. 474 005. > Tele: 0751-247 2233. Mobile 0 94253 09780. > My blogsite is at: > http://anandkbhatt.blogspot.com > (A new blogs has been added on 30 May 10.) > And the photo site: > www.flickr.com/photos/akbhatt/ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Ten most common surnames of Indians: Singh, Kumar, Sharma, Patel, Shah, > Lal, Gupta, Bhat, Rao, Reddy. Cheers! > >
