Sir ji can you please upload the photo of E. roseum, bcoz its quite confusing between E. pulchella and E. roseum..
I dont know about North but in Western part this plants remains for just 8 month and they dry up in summer.. regards, On 6/8/11, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > *Eranthemum pulchellum* Andrews, Bot. Repos. 2: t. 88 1800. > syn: *Upudalia* *pulchella* (Andrews) Raf.; *Eranthemum* *nervosum* (Vahl) > R.Br. ex Roem. & Schult. > > evergreen shrub with prominently veined up to 20 cm long ovate leaves; fls > in axillary and terminal spikes; bracts prominent with green and white > markings; corolla blue, tube 2.5 cm long, lobes spreading. > Commonly grown in Delhi, Photographed from Khalsa College Delhi > > Common name: Blue sage > > Key to common species grown in India > > Bracts white with green nerves > > > Bracts elliptic, cuspidate, glabrous and spikes upto 7.5 > cm.....E. pulchellum Andr. > > > Bracts obovate, mucronate, strigose and spikes longer than 7.5 cm....E. > roseum (Vahl.) R. Br. > > Bracts green, > > Bracts many nerved, white ciliate on margins.........................E. > purpurascens Nees > > Bracts few nerved, viscous hairy......................E. capens L. var. > concanense (T. And. C. B. Cl.) Sant. > > > They are well illustrated in the following thread > > > https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix/browse_thread/thread/a98d8d20dd92659f/b96487df74641dfa?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=Eranthemum#b96487df74641dfa > * > * > -- > 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/ > -- - H.S. A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone
