Sir is the botanical name same for Jangli and Cultivated Gajar? On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
> *Daucus carota* Linn., Sp. Pl. 242. 1753. var. *carota* > * > * > *Common names: Wild carrot, **Queen Anne's-lace*, *queen's-lace*, *salosi* > > > Vernacular: jangli gajjar > > Biennial herb up to 1 m tall; tap root slender, woody, branched, not > fleshy, usually brown in colour; stem hispid; leaves 2-3 pinnate with linear > to oval deeply toothed segments; inflorescence a compound umbel; involucre > bracts usually divided, involucel bracts entire or divided; flowers white; > ovary hispid; fruit ovoid, 2-3 mm long, spiny. > > Common in Kashmir valley on slopes and wastelands. Photographed from > Cheshmashahi forest, Srinagar, Kashmir in June. > -- > 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
