Promila ji The Magnolia grandiflora grown in Kashmir I think has largest flowers I have ever seen. The bud may be as long as 15 cm and fully opened flower may measure 20-25 cm in diam. These are at least one and a half times as large as flowers I have seen in California. In our childhood days we would pluck a bud and keep it in a vase (or simple a tumbler) of water. It would slowly open and may last up to 10 days or so, spreading fragrance all the time. The poor tree hardly flowers in Delhi, and if it ever does fully opened flower may scarcely be 10 cm in diam.
-- 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 Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Vijayasankar <[email protected]>wrote: > It may be one of the several cultivars / hybrids of M. grandiflora. > Pl check this: > http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/factsheets/trees-new/cultivars/magnolia_grandiflora-table.html > > Regards > > Vijayasankar Raman > National Center for Natural Products Research > University of Mississippi > > > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 8:02 AM, promila chaturvedi < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Why the Magnolia grandjflora is larger in Eastern part of the ountry than >> Kasmir. Though long time ago a mali from Shere-Kashmir-Internation Comfrence >> Centre tolm me that it is not M. grandiflora. The gradiflora has large >> flowers. And I have seen in Shilong that M grandiflora used to have realy >> large. The span of its flower was sometimes more than a foot. They were >> highly fragrant.doesany sub family also exist? >> Promila >> >> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Balkar Arya <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Beautiful Catch Mohan Ji >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Mohan V. Chunkath < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Dear Dr. Gurcharan Singh, >>>> >>>> I am sending this of a Magnolia grandiflora flower photograph taken in a >>>> park in Auckland, New Zealand on 18th December, 2009. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Mohan Chunkath >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Regards >>> >>> Dr Balkar Singh >>> Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology >>> Arya P G College, Panipat >>> Haryana-132103 >>> 09416262964 >>> >> >> >
