Dear Sir Ji, This plant reminds me of *Cirsium verutum* (D.Don) Sprengel [Synonym: *C. involucratum* DC., *Cnicus argyracanthus* (DC.) C.B. Clarke].
regards Tanay On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Cirsium sp. from Kashmir, growing along roadsides along Pampore Karewas. I > was tempted to identify it as C. wallichii but the spines on leaves are > shorter and involucre bracts different from C. wallichii photographed from > Manali earlier: Photographed on June 20, 2010 > > > http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix/browse_thread/thread/d07b00c13155a491/d07c4b53686e4d05?lnk=gst&q=Cirsium+wallichii#d07c4b53686e4d05 > > -- > 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)
