Yes Nidhan ji is correct. Leaves in second photograph and most in first and third belong to a different species.
-- 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 Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Nidhan Singh <nidhansingh...@gmail.com>wrote: > Satish Ji, > > The inflorescence looks like Celosia argentea, but the leaves in the > second pic point to a different plant. I may be wrong but to me there > seems a mix up. > > On 11/30/11, Satish Phadke <drsmpha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > A herb observed on Sinhagad fort 25th Nov 2011. > > Overall the flowers were fairly similar to *Celosia argentia* but the > > spikes were much much smaller. The leaves are green bigger. > > There were other *Celosia argentia* plants not very close but nearby > which > > had larger spikes and mostly leafless as against this plant with globular > > inflorescence. > > > > -- > > Dr Satish Phadke > > > > > -- > Regards, > > Dr. Nidhan Singh > Department of Botany > I.B. (PG) College > Panipat-132103 Haryana > Ph.: 09416371227 >
