Kiran ji Not heard about this one but Viola tricolor the common pansy many intriguing names:
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:p75yE-T2wCoJ:www.plantlives.com/docs/V/Viola_tricolor.pdf+meet-her-in-the-buttery-kiss-her-in-the-pantry&hl=en&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShs6-wKMHYU7Vh9GCBtwfC89lm4vaagfcovfepdc6apj5CJ97EalUVXxaEaBE64VCR-RYWbytGhee8NDR_k3dMCQJC9ukSdtX2ZTLM3oKJcCmRmR8KOwfT03yDq829v_-iWl5BD&sig=AHIEtbQEG2yoioaTj7u0eL-YeGFSflIZ0A There are many many more. May be some young energetic member can compile such a list. <http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:p75yE-T2wCoJ:www.plantlives.com/docs/V/Viola_tricolor.pdf+meet-her-in-the-buttery-kiss-her-in-the-pantry&hl=en&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShs6-wKMHYU7Vh9GCBtwfC89lm4vaagfcovfepdc6apj5CJ97EalUVXxaEaBE64VCR-RYWbytGhee8NDR_k3dMCQJC9ukSdtX2ZTLM3oKJcCmRmR8KOwfT03yDq829v_-iWl5BD&sig=AHIEtbQEG2yoioaTj7u0eL-YeGFSflIZ0A> -- 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 Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 4:27 PM, kiran srivastava <[email protected]>wrote: > Hmm! 'Kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate' is intriguing. Somewhere in Kashmir > there must be another plant called, > 'I'll-kick-your-butt-across-the-field'...if the father was watching from one > of the windows. > > Cheers, > Kiran Srivastava > Mumbai > > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Persicaria orientalis (L.) Spach (syn: Polygonum orientale L.), growing in >> moist areas, sometimes grown as ornamental. Photographed from Hazuribagh >> garden in Srinagar on June 16, 2010. >> >> Common names >> English: Kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate, Prince's-feather, Princess-feather >> Chinese: Hong liao >> French: Renouée orientale >> Beng: Bara pani mirch >> >> Eaten as pot-herb; used as tonic and vulnerary. Concentrated infusion >> poisonous to fish. Nuts used for tubercular swellings and flatulence. >> * >> * >> * >> * >> >> >> -- >> 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/ >> >> >
