Nice set of Pics Raman Ji On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:37 AM, raman <[email protected]> wrote: > Indian Boxwood is a small deciduous tree or large shrub, which is often > growing on other small plants, which it eventually kills, the way Figs do. > This gardening can be easily distinguished from the others by its large > leaves. Bark is greenish-grey, peeling and leaving smooth, concave, rounded > depressions. Oppositely arranged, or whorled leaves have very short stalks, > and are oval to obovate, smooth, with a small hairy gland in the axils of > the veins on the underside, 6-8 in long, by about 3 in broad. Flowers appear > singly at the end of branches. Sepal cup is bell-shaped, segments or teeth > very irregular. Flowers have salver-form, meaning starting from a narrow > tube and suddenly flaring into a flat arrangement of petals. Flowers are > white or pale lemon-yellow, orange when fading. Flower tube is about 2 > inches long, with 5-9 obliquely obovate petals, about 1/2 as long as the > tube. Stigma is club-shaped, thick, and fleshy, bipartite, segments bifid. > Berry is even, nearly spherical, crowned with the whole limbs of the sepal. > > Raman
-- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
