Nice Shots Sir On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Satish Phadke <[email protected]> wrote:
> Beautiful... > > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> *Rosmarinus officinalis* Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 23. 1753. >> >> Common names: Rosemary >> >> Aromatic shrub up to 2 m tall with up to 25 mm long, 1-2 mm broad >> clustered leaves, glabrous above, white stellate-tomentose beneath, margin >> revolute, apex obtuse; flowers crowded on short branches, blue to whitish, >> 2-lipped; calyx tomentose outside, upper lip subcircular, lower ovate; >> corolla 7-9 mm across, upper lip 2-lobed, lower 3-lobed middle lobe >> broadest with constriction at base, lateral lobes oblong. >> >> Often cultivated for extraction of rosemary oil and as ornamental. >> Photographed from Ranikhet. >> -- >> 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://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ >> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >> >> > > > -- > Dr Satish Phadke > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
