Cultivated, var. sativa Here is the key from eFlora of China
1Taproot thickened, elongate terete or clavate, fleshy, reddish, reddish-yellow, or yellow (a carrot). 1b var. sativa<http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200015519> +Taproot slender, branched, woody, not fleshy, usually brown. 1a var. carota<http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=242316909> -- 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 Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Balkar Arya <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
