Dear. Ms. Nalini, Your answer was too much philosophical I assume. As the name suggests, foetida means fowl smelling, so it doesnt matter who is smelling it, it will smell foul. Just because of the biochemical excretion from the glandular hairs which are present on the plant in foetida but absent from edulis. My issue was more of the identification. My plant ripens but never changes its colour, where as the assume same foetida ripens and changes orange and tastes sweet. That proves that the species can be different atleast on the variety level. There is one such example in orchid, Habenaria gibsoni var. foetida which smells like decomposing flesh or lets put straight, human shit, and then there is Habenaria gibsoni var. gibsoni, which doesnt smell that way....I am sure there would be many more similar examples.
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote: > Gurcharan ji, I think Sunita ji has now become a member since I allowed her > post to be published. > Her email ID reflects in the list of members. > > Sunita ji, if you have any difficulty in posting at next instance, please > let any of us know ... you have our email IDs in this response. > > Happy posting !! > Regards. > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Sunit ji >> To be able to reply from the eflora site firstly you should have a google >> Id and you should have been logged in with this google ID. >> >> >> -- >> 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/> >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Sunita Mohan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I'm sorry, I tried to reply to this thread on the eflora site but was >>> informed that I am not allowed to post because I'm not a member. How >>> strange! Since I'm a newbie and have never posted here before I hope you'll >>> excuse this form of replying. >>> Anyway, for the original poster who wanted to see a photo of the >>> passionflowers with edible fruits, I have one posted on my blog : >>> http://the-urban-gardener.blogspot.com/2010/07/its-wet-green-world.html >>> This develops into a reddish fruit and is in my opinion much more >>> flavourful than the yellow ones. >>> >>> Sunita Mohan >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >
