Giby ji This American plant is also widely cultivated and readily naturalizes. It features in Revised Handbook of Flora of Ceylone as also in enumeration of Flowering Plants of Nepal.
-- 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 10:34 PM, Smilax004 <[email protected]> wrote: > A new species to me. Is this species introduced recently to India? > > Regards, > Giby > > > > On Aug 3, 7:43 pm, Vijayasankar <[email protected]> wrote: > > Looks like *Nicandra physaloides*, a native of Peru. > > > > Regards > > > > Vijayasankar Raman > > National Center for Natural Products Research > > University of Mississippi > > > > On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Aarti S. Khale <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Taken at Kodaikanal on 25/10/08. > > > Found growing wild. > > > A small plant. > > > Aarti >
