sir all Ixora are looking amazing through ur lens. Regards
P..................... On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Balkar Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Nice Colored Variety Sir > > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> *Ixora coccinea* f.* lutea* (Hutch.) Fosberg & Sachet, Baileya 23 (2): >> 79, 1989 >> syn: *Ixora lutea* (Hutch.) >> >> Evergreen shrub up to 1.3 m tall; leaves opposite, sessile, oblong, up to >> 10 cm long, cordate or slightly amplexicaule at baseobtuse or mucronate, >> lateral veins 8-15 pairs; flowers yellows (in this form) in 5-10 cm wide >> corymbose cymes on very short peduncle; pedicel almost absent; bracts 6-8 >> mm long; calyx teeth minute, corolla tube 25-40 mm long, lobes 8-10 mm >> long, acute; stamens 4 with short filaments, anthers falling early; style >> exserted; fruit globose, red when ripe. >> >> The species is widely cultivated and comes in a variety of colours but >> can be easily recognised by its smaller habit, sessile almost clasping >> oblong leaves baring reaching 10 cm, and flowers with corolla lobes usually >> less than 10 mm long. This yellow variety (now relegated to form) earlier >> uploaded by me as var. flava (which does not seem to have been a published >> name) has wider corolla lobes than typical and more fuller flowers. >> >> Photographed from Khalsa College, Delhi >> >> >> -- >> 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/ >> >> > > > -- > Regards > > Dr Balkar Singh > Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology > Arya P G College, Panipat > Haryana-132103 > 09416262964 > -- Prasad Kumar Dash Ecologist, Odisha, India email: [email protected] ph. 09437444241
