You are perfect with your teaching. Don't change anything. These terms are stimulus for us to learn. In fact I have an idea of starting something like....... *"term of the week*" (Was started earlier by Garg ji but somehow not supported by others with the same zeal) Here some term will be coined by some expert for a week and evryone will try to upload pictures supporting it.We can find variation it it also.Future ideas must evolve tomake the group interesting Isn't it?
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Satish ji > I used the term uncinate initially but when I described the spines at the > end I was reminded of persons like you and used hooked, which means the > same. I think I will have to learn to be less technical in future. > > > -- > > 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 Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Satish Phadke <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I liked the way Sir ji gives the description So neat.I have to recheck all >> my Triumfettas. >> Some botanical terms are difficult to digest though(Uncinate spines: I >> will search it; no issues. Are they typically seen here in these >> pictures?)...Still most of the description is so clear. The characters are >> illustrated in the pictures too. >> Usha di. The cyme is 3 flowered I suppose; that is it consists of 3 >> flowers. >> >> >> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Ushadi micromini < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> very thoughtful... >>> >>> what is 3 flowered? >>> >>> Usha di >>> ==== >>> >>> On Sep 29, 3:10 pm, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > *Triumfetta annua* Linn., Mant. 1:73. 1767. >>> > >>> > The species is distinct from others in its orange flowers and glabrous >>> > uncinate spines on the fruit. Annual herb up to 1 m tall, stem purplish >>> on >>> > one side with line of hairs; leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, >>> 3-5-veined >>> > from base, stipules linear, hirsute; cymes leaf-opposed, usually >>> 3-flowered; >>> > flowers orange, 8 mm across, petals slightly smaller than sepals; >>> stamens >>> > 10; capsule globose 9-11 mm in diam including spines which are 4-5 mm >>> long >>> > glabrous and with hooked tips. >>> > >>> > Photographed from near Kalsi along Mussoorie Chakrata road on September >>> 16, >>> > 2011 >>> > >>> > -- >>> > 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/ >>> > >>> > Triumfetta-annua-Between Dakpathar and Kalsi-2.jpg >>> > 176KViewDownload >>> > >>> > Triumfetta-annua-Mussoorie-Chakrata Road near Kalsi-3.jpg >>> > 143KViewDownload >>> > >>> > Triumfetta-annua-near Dakpathar towards Kalsi-1.jpg >>> > 100KViewDownload >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Dr Satish Phadke >> > > > > -- Dr Satish Phadke
