thanks Sir for sharing nice pics On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Satish Phadke <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just for compilation it comes under family : Plantaginaceae. > > > On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Satish Phadke <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Good one. New to me like many others from Kashmir. Had never seen the >> yellow variety. >> Dr Phadke >> >> >> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> *Digitalis grandiflora* Mill., Gard. Dict. ed. 8 4 corr. 1768. >>> syn: *Digitalis flava* Georgi; *D. ochroleuca* Jacq.; *D. ambigua*Murray >>> >>> Common name: Yellow foxglove, large yellow foxglove >>> >>> A perennial herb growing up to 1.5 m tall with ovate lanceolate finely >>> serrulate leaves and darker yellow 2.5-3.5 cm long bell-shaped flowers >>> specked with brown, carried on up to 60 cm long spikes. >>> >>> May sometimes be confused with D. lutea the Straw foxglove, which however >>> is shorter, with narrower leaves, pale yellow up to 2 cm long and narrower >>> flowers with tube almost of same breadth throughout. >>> -- >>> 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/ >>> >>> >> > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
