Gurcharanji...I forgot to ask ... is it edible?
Usha di
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On Nov 20, 7:34 pm, Ushadi micromini <[email protected]>
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> Reeds are also very common along the marshes along NJ turnpike ...
> across from Manhattan down to the Delaware valley... but the species
> there is I think P. australis... inflorescence is abit more bulky and
> longer than p. communis...
> but regardless, bird watchers love these stands.. breeding and feeding
> grounds for many birds...
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> thanks for these pictures..
> Usha di
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> On Nov 20, 6:51 pm, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > *Phragmites australis* (Cay.) Trin. ex Steud., Nom. Bot., ed. 2, 2:324.
> > 1841.
> > syn: *Phragmites* *communis* Trin.; *Arundo* *australis* Cay.
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> > Tall perennial reed up to 5 m tall; leaf-blades up to 60 cm long, up to 3
> > cm broad with filiform tip; panicle up to 50 cm long, up to 20 cm broad;
> > spikelets 12-16 mm long with up to 10 mm long silky rhachilla hairs; upper
> > glume lanceolate 5-9 mm long, apiculate; lemma narrowly lanceolate, up to
> > 12 mm long.
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> > Common in Kashmir valley in ponds and banks of Dal Lake, Nagin Lake and
> > other lakes in the Valley. Photographed from Banks of Nagin Lake in
> > Kashmir.
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> > --
> > 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/
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