Gurcharan ji, nice photos of the flowers. Hope you kept some flowers for the sunbirds ! lol
Regards, Mani. On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Lonicera japonica Thunb. from Kashmir, a very common woody climber in > Kashmir often grown to cower house-walls are compound-walls. We used to > enjoy sucking nectar from back of the pinched flower. > > Common names > English: Japanese honeysuckle > Lushai: Leihruisen > Chinese: Jin yin hua, Ren dong > French: Clématite du Japon > German: japanisches Geißblatt > Japanese: Nindo, suikazura > Spanish: madreselva > > Medicinal, dried flowers diuretic and rich in carotenoids. Browsing by > cattle provides emmergency green roughage. > > > -- > 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/ > >
