Another helpful upload Gurcharan ji; many thanks. Regards. Dinesh
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Prasad Dash <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >
