the young inflorescence appears green. once the ivary is formed it would impart the reddish/ purplish tone.
Regards Satish Pardeshi On Feb 1, 4:31 pm, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Muthu ji > I would go with E. antiquurum, because the angles are distinctly 3-winged, > the wings are running almost straight. In E. tortilis the angles are not > that promently winged, they are lobulate with stout paired spines on lobes, > and most importantly the angles are spirally twisted like we have in E. > neriifolia where of course the angles are not that prominents, and there are > 5 spiral rows. > > -- > 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: 9810359089http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Muthu Karthick <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear all, > > descriptions match this thorny shrub as *Euphorbia antiquorum*. I suspect > > this to be a different species owing to the colour of flowers. Please > > help to solve this. > > Could this be *E. tortilis*? > > > Location: Sathyamangalam wls; 300 msl > > Date: 15 Dec 2010 > > > -- > > Muthu Karthick, N > > Junior Research Fellow > > Care Earth Trust > > #15, second main road, > > Thillai ganga nagar, > > Chennai - 600 061 > > Mob: 09626833911 > >www.careearthtrust.org
