Gurcharanji: I loved this... flowers for sure but the fruits from previous years esp
The flowers and the cauliflory reminded me of texas redbud, and googling tells me the redbud in texas is* Cercis canadensis*, ie a relative... by inference i wonder if this tree in Kashmir would also survive in the lower hotter states... like bengal... I wonder usha di ====== 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/ > > -- Usha di ===========
