Samir ji A nice series of photographs. Why don't you list down the differences (other than habit), if they look so different?. This will help in further investigation.
-- 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 Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Samir Mehta <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Fellow group-members, > > The images in this post consist of a Petrea volubilis 'classical (first 2 > images) from one plant and the rest of the images from another plant, the > latter being a scandent shrub, 10-12 ft tall. > > I was not sure whether the scandent shrub images were indeed of Petrea > volubilis because they looked so different until I saw something similar in > Top Tropicals labeled Petrea arborea. A quick check with the ars-grin > database confirmed the taxon listed as a synonym of P. volubilis. > > I'm a trifle surprised that the variation has not been listed as a > sub-species for the morphological (in structure) difference (subject to my > identification being correct) is quite evident and significant. > > Regards, > > Samir Mehta > > >
