Beautiful flowers with rare color Regards, Mani On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote:
> Well illustrated upload Gurcharan ji; very useful for ID. > Regards. > Dinesh > > > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Prasad Dash <[email protected]>wrote: > >> 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 >> > >
