Thank you sir for clarification. I am not very familiar with introduced plants and this is a good platform for my learning of such plants
Thanks and Regards, Giby On 4 August 2011 09:17, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > > > > -- GIBY KURIAKOSE PhD Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Royal Enclave, Jakkur Post, Srirampura Bangalore- 560064 India Phone - +91 9448714856 (Mobile) visit my pictures @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/giby

