Yes Dinesh ji aurorae was inadvertent error
-- 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 Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote: > Many many thanks Gurcharan ji for upload and for the key difference among > the two most popular garden Mussaenda. > > Perhaps entry of the word aurorae in the initial post ... *Musseanda > philippica* *aurorae* 'Queen Sirikit' is inadvertent. > It would be: *Musseanda philippica* 'Queen Sirikit' > Please correct me if wrong. > > Regards. > Dinesh > > > > > > On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Perhaps more than flower colour which can vary the more important >> difference is >> >> M. philippica: all flowers in the inflorescence with enlarged calyx lobes >> M. erythrophylla: only few flowers in inflorescence with enlarged calyx >> lobes >> >> -- >> 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 Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Musseanda philippica aurorae 'Queen Sirikit' from Khalsa College, Delhi. >>> >>> Shrubs often growing 5 m or more tall, with elliptic-ovate leaves up to >>> 15 cm long, slightly hairy beneath; flowers sulphur yellow with 15-22 mm >>> long tube, with rounded ovate enlarged sepal up to 7 cm long, nearly as >>> broad. >>> This particular cultivar has enlarged sepals and bracts are pink >>> coloured in this cultivar. >>> >>> Photographed from Khalsa College, Delhi >>> >>> There is confusion on whether this particular cultivar belongs to M. >>> philippica or M. erythrophylla, and sometimes simply listed as Mussaenda >>> 'Queen Sirikit'. However, the two species are quite distinct in corolla, it >>> being yellow in M. philippica and white to creamy white with red centre in >>> M. erythrophylla. The following key should help in separating cultivated >>> members of Rubuaceae. >>> >>> >>> http://homepage.univie.ac.at/christian.puff/FTH-RUB/FTH-RUB_CULTIVATED_compl_WEB.htm >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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/ >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >
