I think M. philippica cv. Queen Sirikit
-- 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 Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Balkar Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Very Beautiful pics of lovely garden Plant. > > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:21 AM, raman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The mussaenda is an evergreen shrub related to coffee trees and native to >> Asia. It may be a rather small shrub, or large to 30 feet, like a small >> tree. Commercial nurseries often train mussaenda to be tree-like in form >> for landscape use. Their natural habit is to produce many stems and it is >> quite a rambler. It has silky, hairy, soft medium-green leaves. The plant's >> color comes from bracts and not the small, often yellow, white or orange, >> flowers at the center of each bract. This is the same color-producing >> system used by tropicals such heliconia and bougainvillea. Bracts may be >> seen in several colors including rose, white, red, pale pink and some >> mixtures. >> >> Raman >> > > > > -- > Regards > > Dr Balkar Singh > Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology > Arya P G College, Panipat > Haryana-132103 > 09416262964 >
