very beautiful Regards Bhagyashri On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Tanay Bose <[email protected]> wrote:
> A new plant for me > Tanay > > > On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 3:22 AM, Madhuri Pejaver <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Beauty >> Madhuri >> >> --- On *Sun, 11/9/11, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>* wrote: >> >> >> From: Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> >> Subject: [efloraofindia:81131] Malvaceae Week: Trochetiopsis ebenus from >> University of California Botanical Garden >> To: "efloraofindia" <[email protected]> >> Date: Sunday, 11 September, 2011, 7:34 AM >> >> >> *Trochetiopsis ebenus *Cronk, Edinburgh J. Bot. 52: 210 1995. >> >> Common name: *Saint Helena ebony* >> >> Plant endemic to the island of Saint Helena in the southern Atlantic >> Ocean. Saint Helena ebony is now critically endangered in the wild. It >> was assumed to be extinct till two bushes were discovered in 1980. From >> these two bushes many thousands of specimens have been propagated by seed >> and vegative propagation. These represent a small, and perhaps atypical, >> representation of the former variability of the species. >> A low spreading shrub with horizontal stems; leaves ovate and >> sub-cordate, about 7 cm long, dark green with brown hairs beneath; flowers >> about 7-8 cm across, white aging to pink; epicalyx of 3 triangular segments; >> staminal column reddish purplish brown with 5 ligulate staminodes of the >> same colour, surrounded by 5 stamens. The filaments and pollen of the >> stamens are orange. >> >> Photographed University of California Botanical Garden in June, 2008 >> >> >> 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/ >> >> > > > -- > *Tanay Bose* > Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant. > Department of Botany. > University of British Columbia . > 3529-6270 University Blvd. > Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 (Canada) > Phone: 778-323-4036 (Mobile) > 604-822-2019 (Lab) > 604-822-6089 (Fax) > [email protected] > *Webpages:* > http://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/mberbee.html > http://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/gradstud.html > https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ > > >
