I love these flowers ...esp the light bluish pink or the dark pink ones, used to grow them.... thanks for showing these usha di ====
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > *Amberboa moschata* (L.) DC., Prodr. 6:560. 1838 ("1837") > Syn: *Centaurea moschata* L.; *Centaurea imperialis* *hort.*; *Oligochaeta > moschata* (L. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Linnaeus>) M. R. Almeida > > Common name: Sweet Sultan > Garden ornamental herb with pinnatipartite leaves, lower petiolate, > uppermost sessile with serrulate margin; heads terminal on long peduncles; > involucre bracts broadly ovate with scarious margin, inner narrower; > corolla white or purple, outer much longer than inner, 10-20 cleft; > achenes villous. > > Often cultivated in gardens, photographed from Delhi University Garden on > March 2, 2012. > > > <https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-gccIwjKUats/T3FDxMJ2n9I/AAAAAAAAAjM/z2pLQpKnbq0/s1600/Centaurea-moschata-DU-FS-Delhi-1-P1150101.jpg> > Centaurea-moschata-DU-FS-Delhi-1-P1150101 > > > <https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-ZHb5I3SvatA/T3FECsmKAlI/AAAAAAAAAjY/I8OilWa3YUo/s1600/Centaurea-moschata-DU-FS-Delhi-2-P1150105.jpg> > > Centaurea-moschata-DU-FS-Delhi-2-P1150105 > > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-EKs94wIY_UE/T3FEW9ne88I/AAAAAAAAAjk/N3qmRYLhyko/s1600/Centaurea-moschata-DU-FS-Delhi-3-P1150102.jpg> > Centaurea-moschata-DU-FS-Delhi-3-P1150102 > > > Gurcharan Singh > -- Usha di ===========
