Apt common Madhuri --- On Sun, 11/9/11, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> Subject: [efloraofindia:81211] Malvaceae Week: Pseudobombax ellpticum cv Alba from Panchkula To: "efloraofindia" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, 11 September, 2011, 1:46 PM Pseudobombax ellipticum (Kunth) Dugand, Caldasia 2: 67, 1943, cv. Alba Common names: White Shaving brush tree deciduous tree without spines; leaves palmately compound with 3-6 elliptic leaflets; flowers appearing before leaves; calyx about 8 mm long with 10 basal glands; petals white, linear-oblong, up to 15 cm long; stamens numerous, 3/4 as long as petals with white filaments, anthers yellowish; capsule fusiform, up to 15 cm long. Photographed from Cactus Garden, Panchkula in April -- 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/
