Gurcharan ji Nice to know that you have such a wonderful flowering plant around your house in Kashmir.
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Mahadeswara <[email protected]> wrote: > 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://www.gurcharanfamily.com/> >> http://people.du.ac.in/~**singhg45/ <http://people.du.ac.in/%7Esinghg45/> >> >> -- Dr Satish Phadke
