Dear Nalini Ji, the root of these plant have medicinal values. If i am not wrong juice of the root is used to induce vomitting. the root contain very high amount of tannins.
Regards Tanay On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes Nalini ji > It is Iris pseudacorus, also known as Water flag, Pale-yellow iris, Yellow > flag, Yellow iris, Yellow water iris, Yellow flag iris > > By the way species of Iris are commonly known as Flag or Iris and not as > Lily. > > > > -- > 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 Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 4:21 PM, nabha meghani <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Water-IRIS, Foto taken in June 2010 >> >> It is in the pond >> >> Regards >> >> Nalini >> > > -- Tanay Bose +91(033) 25550676 (Resi) 9830439691(Mobile)

