Beautiful tree..full blooming :) On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
> This time I was lucky to click this beautiful tree in flowering. In > previous years I could click only fruiting specimens. When I left Kashmir > for Delhi in 1975, there was a single tree, proud possession of Grindlays > bank (now taken over by J & K bank) in heart of the city. Now I find in > planted in all most all major public gardens. Tree shows cauliflory with > flowers emerging from old shoots. For best results all smaller branches are > cut off in autumn, and when flowers appear on trunk and old branches in > April-May, they appear like garlands or a leafless flowering twiner. > * > * > *Cercis siliquastrum* Linn., Sp. Pl. 374. 1753. > > Common names: Judas tree, lovetree > > Deciduous shrub or small tree, up to 10 m tall with simple reniform up to > 12 cm long leaves, nearly orbicular but often broader than long, up to 12 > cm across, deeply cordate, obtuse or emarginate apex, 7-nerved at the base; > flowers purple-rose, in clusters from old branches, rose-purple; pod up 10 > cm long, flat, narrowly winged along lower edge. > > Commonly grown in gardens in Kashmir, photographed from Cheshmashahi and > Hazuri Bagh. A photograph in fruit from previous year is also included. . > > -- > 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/ > > -- Smita raskar 308 Disha Residency, Salaiwada,Sawantwadi Mob.09422379568 / 09763989639
