Nice shot Sir ji, the flowers are so unique in morphology!! tanay On 4 January 2012 22:05, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dichrostachys cinerea (L.) Wight & Arn., Prodr. fl. Ind. orient. 271. > 1834 > syn: *Cailliea dichrostachys* Guill. & Perr.; *Mimosa cinerea* L.; * > Dichrostachys* *nutans* (Pers.) Benth. > > Common name: marabou-thorn > > Shrub or small tree; leaves bipinnate with glands on rachis between > pinnae, pinnae 4-18 pairs; leaflets 8-20 pairs, 2-6 mm long, margin hairy; > flowers in spikes with lower flowers pink and sterile, upper yellow and > fertile; pod coiled, up to 10 cm long. > > Commonly planted in Delhi. Photographed from Punjabi Bagh. > > -- > 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/ > > -- *Tanay Bose* Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant. Department of Botany. University of British Columbia . 3529-6270 University Blvd. Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 (Canada) Phone: 778-323-4036 (Mobile) 604-822-2019 (Lab) 604-822-6089 (Fax) [email protected] *Webpages:* http://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/mberbee.html http://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/gradstud.html https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/
