Wow, wonderful. Thanks Gurcharan Singh ji for sharing. Regards Prashant On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 6:02 PM, ushadi Micromini <[email protected] > wrote:
> 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 > =========== > >
