Last two and the seedpod...love it Usha di
On Sep 10, 1:31 am, Madhuri Pejaver <formpeja...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Beautiful. As if painted. > Madhuri > > --- On Fri, 9/9/11, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > From: Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> > Subject: [efloraofindia:80656] Malvaceae Week: Malva sylvestris from Delhi > and Kashmir > To: "efloraofindia" <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com> > Date: Friday, 9 September, 2011, 8:49 AM > > Malva sylvestris L., Sp. pl. 2:689. 1753syn: Malva mauritiana L. > > Common names: cheeses, common mallow, high mallow, tall mallow > > Tall biennial herb up to 1.2 m; leaves 2-4 cm long, 3-lobed, truncate to > cordate at base; stipules lanceolate, 5 mm long, petiole 2-6 cm long; flowers > in axillary fascicles of 2-4, epicalyx segments ovate, 2-3 mm long; calyx 3-6 > mm long; petals at least three times as long as calyx, pink-purple, > emarginate; fruit 5-6 mm across, mericarps 10-12, reticulate. > > Often grown in gardens as ornamental and occurring as escape. Photographed > from Herbal garden in Delhi in March and Balgarden in 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: 9810359089http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/
