Sir ji, Very beautiful set of photographs. esp *Lactuca-scariola-Balgarden-Kashmir-3-DSC06662.jpg and the one showing *dehiscence. Never seen something like this before.Thank you Prasad ji for mentioning the word. I was waiting for someone to mention it so that I can share my appreciation too as I did not know how to describe it.
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Prasad ji > > > -- > 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 Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:42 PM, prasad dash <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Sit to me both DSC06683 and DSC06267 are awesome. Never seen such a >> wonderful phorograph (DSC06267) of dehiscence. >> >> Regrads >> >> prasad >> >> * * >> >> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> *Lactuca serriola* L., Cent. pl. II:29. 1756 (Amoen. acad. 4:328. 1759) >>> syn: *Lactuca scariola* L.; *Lactuca augustana* All. >>> >>> Common name: Prickly lettuce >>> >>> Tall prickly herb reaching 1.5 m, branched, prickly towards base; >>> leaves sessile, pinnatifid with toothed segmrnts pointing downwards, >>> prickly on midrib and nerves beneath, upper leaves stem-clasping with >>> arrow-shaped base; heads yellow, 9-12 mm in diam., in long panicles with >>> spreading branches; involucre bracts oblong; achene brown nearly 3 mm long >>> with slender almost as long longer beak, pappus hairs white. >>> >>> Very common in Kashmir valley in wastelands, borders of fields and road >>> sides , photographed from Balgarden and University Campus in August. >>> >>> -- >>> 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/ >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Prasad Kumar Dash >> Ecologist, Orissa, India >> email: [email protected] >> ph. 09437444241 >> > > > > -- Regards Dr.Bhagyashri Ranade
