Alok ji
This is turning out to be really interesting. Your this photograph clearly
belongs to Ranunculaceae, either Delphinium or Aquilegia. But looking at the
flowers especially in the second photograph, I am unable to decide whether
it is a single flower (with numerous petals) or a cluster of flowers. In the
second option I can see only single spur (Aquilegia should have five), but
then calyx + corolla should have maximum 10 members. Here I see many.
Perhaps some one will resolve the mystery.
--
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 Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Alok & Isabelle <[email protected]>wrote:
> YAHOO...!! It IS from the family {Akelei (german name)} Aquilegia...
>
> I chanced upon a lost photograph from my archives of the seed pod and it
> definitely reminds me of the columbine family... is it presumptuous of
> me?? But to my limited knowledge it does indeed look like that... some
> kind of a freak wild hybrid of a double columbine.. perhaps something
> like Aquilegia vulgaris var stellata in blue..
> Thanks for the inspiration...
> Ecstatic..... :))
> Alok
> On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 12:24 +0100, Na Bha wrote:
> >
> > can it be Akelei (germanname) (Aquilegia)?
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Gurcharan Singh
> > To: Alok & Isabelle
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 11:21 AM
> > Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:62535] ID request from a newbie..
> >
> >
> > Looking at leaves it appears Corydalis (flower head reminds
> > Trifolium). If flowers and leaves belong to the same plant,
> > the closest match seems to be Corydalis cashmeriana (though
> > inflorescence is more dense).
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > 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, Feb 11, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Alok & Isabelle
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Dear friends,
> > My first mail of request and I am asking help to ID
> > the flower which got
> > me into studying wildflowers in Dalhousie (Chamba) HP.
> > Date/Time- May 2010
> >
> > Location- Kalatope wildlife Sanctuary, Chamba dist.
> > Himachal Pradesh,
> > India approx. 2400 mts altitude
> >
> > Habitat- Wild
> >
> > Plant Habit- Herb
> >
> > Height/Length- approx. 2 feet
> >
> > The other info can be better deduced from the pics
> > P.S.- My camera is not too good and I apologise for
> > the quality of
> > photos.
> >
> > --
> > Himalayan Village Education Trust
> > Village Khudgot,
> > P.O. Dalhousie
> > District Chamba
> > H.P. 176304, India
> > www.hive.interconnection.org
> > www.hivetrust.wordpress.com
> >
> http://mushroomobserver.org/observer/observations_by_user/2186
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> Himalayan Village Education Trust
> Village Khudgot,
> P.O. Dalhousie
> District Chamba
> H.P. 176304, India
> www.hive.interconnection.org
> hivetrust.wordpress.com
>
