C. grandiflora for sure, after having seen and posted C. radicans from Kashmir.
-- 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/ On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Padmini Raghavan <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear Sir, > Here are my snaps of this orange flower. Please tell me which Campsis it > is. > ( Only recently found it was a Campsis and not Bignonia capreolata) > Thanks, > Padmini Raghavan. > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> After seeing C. radicans from Kashmir I was confused about the identity of >> Campsis commonly growing in Delhi and earlier identified by me as C. >> radicans and also depicted on Flowers of India website as C. radicans. The >> typical C. radicans from Kashmir has much longer corolla tube (6-8 cm long >> as against 4-5 in C. grandiflora) and shallowly parted calyx tube. The >> plants from Delhi though with slightly smaller flowers have shorter corolla >> and deeply parted calyx, which leads me to think that my Campsis from Delhi >> may be smaller form of C. grandiflora and not C. radicans. >> Kindly give your critical views on this. >> >> -- >> 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/ >> >> >
