Gurucharan ji, Nice shots...Thanks for sharing the photos.
On Sunday, May 6, 2012 10:18:39 PM UTC+5:30, Gurcharan Singh wrote: > > *Lunaria annual* L., Sp. pl. 2:653. 1753 > > Common names: Honesty plant, annual honesty, money plant, silver dollar, > Chinese money, Chinese coins, penny-flower > > Branched hairy annual or biennial herb with broadly cordate coarsely > toothed leaves, lower stalked, upper sessile; flowers violet to pink, on up > to 20-flowered racemes, without bracts; petals 2-3 cm long, obovate, > strongly veined; fruit nearly orbicular, flattened, up to 4 cm long, > slightly less broader; seeds few. > > Photographed from our house garden in Balgarden, Srinagar Kashmir on May > 5, 2012. > > I have feeling that plant depicted on Flowers of India is not correctly > identified. It has much narrower leaves and fruits are linear and not > coin-like. It may be Hesperis sp. > > > > -- > 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/ > >
