Checking at the description and photographs on the net I find there is lot of mix up between D. brunonianum, D. cashmerianum and D. vestitum. Even the plant depicted in Flowers of Himalayas as D. cashmerianum does seem to have leaves much different than found typically in D. cashmerianum
http://cubits.org/gardaflora/thread/view/49201/ http://www.abc.se/~m8449/pic/juli04.jpg http://www.abc.se/~m8449/pic/DE8.jpg Not the Photograph of Flowers of Himalayas but description seems to match this plant of D. cashmerianum (which says it resembles D. brunonianum but differs in not being glandular hairy in upper parts and smaller less inflated flowers mostly 2-3 cm) http://magnar.aspaker.no/seedlist%202008.htm Your plant in that respect seems to be correctly identified as D. cashmerianum in your another mail (although flowers are fairly large in your plant). -- 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, Jan 25, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Suresh Kumar Rana <[email protected]>wrote: > Botanical name: *Delphinium cashmerianum* > Family: Ranunculaceae > Location: Paddar valley J&K > Date: 2nd August 2011 > Altitude: 3500 meters asl > > -- > Warm regards > Suresh Rana > >
