very nice & new for me thanks for sharing On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Madhuri Raut <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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/ >> >> >> > -- HARI SHANKAR LAL AT-SHIV KUTIR PO-BARA BAZAR DIST-HAZARIBAG PIN-825301 JHARKHAND,INDIA MOBILE-9431530563 [email protected]
