Nice shot interesting plant. Tanay On 11 January 2012 00:31, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
> *Heracleum canescens* Lindl. in Royle, Ill. Bot. Himal. Mount. 232. 1835. > syn: *Heracleum* *hirsutum* Edgew. > > Perennial herb, up to 90 cm tall, covered with spreading white hairs; > leaves 1- to 2-pinnate, leaflets ovate or oblong, covered with white hairs > on both surfaces and petiole, margins crenate to serrate, undivided or > 3-lobed; flowers white in compound umbels; rays 5-20, up to 8 cm long in > fruit, covered with white hairs; calyx teeth small, linear, acute; petals > white, outer petals of outermost flowers distinctly larger; fruit elliptic, > 8-12 mm long, obovate, retuse at apex. > > Common along hillside slopes in Chakrata area, photographed in September. > -- > 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/
