Another clean capure. Regards
P........... On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Balkar Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Again beautiful Shots Sir. Nurserymen called many dwarf Ixoras as Chinese > ixora > > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> *Ixora chinensis* Lamk., Encycl. 3: 344. 1789 >> syn: *Ixora* *dubia* Schutt; *Ixora* *incarnata* Roxb. ex Smith; *Ixora* >> *rosea* Sims. >> >> Common name: Chinese ixora >> >> Small shrub up to 1.5 m tall; leaves oblong, elliptic to >> elliptic-obovate, 6-9 cm long, gradually narrowed to rounded base, >> subsessile with petiole barely 2-3 mm long; pink to orange in >> trichotomously branched corymbose cymes, of the three flowers in each cyme >> central sessile, lateral with 2-3 mm long pedicel; calyx lobes minute; >> corolla tube 20-30 mm, lobes elliptic, 5-8 mm long, apex broadly obtuse to >> rounded; fruit reddish-black, subglobose, 6-7 mm long. >> >> Frequently planted in gardens. Looking similar to I. coccinea in smaller >> flowers but obtuse (and not acute) corolla lobes and leaves subsessile (and >> not sessile). 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
