Beautiful Sir. Girls used to keep this flower or its picture in their room to get a beautiful husband...............
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Aarti S. Khale <[email protected]>wrote: > Sir ji, > Really very beautiful. > When I visited Pahalgam in ,11, I was able to photograph the plant when > the flower had fallen off. > You had identified it then as Paonia emodi, the Himalayan Peony. > I was eager to see the flower. > Thanks for sharing. > Regards, > Aarti > > > On Friday, May 18, 2012 6:36:26 AM UTC+4, Gurcharan Singh wrote: >> >> This year I had planned an early visit to Kashmir to capture some early >> flowering plants, especially bulbous plants, Prunus, Salix and Populus. I >> got delayed by nearly fifteen days to miss many of these but am being well >> compensated by many interesting captures. Yesterday while driving towards >> Pahalgam, a few kilometres before, I noticed a huge patch of this profusely >> flowering Himalayan Peony, across the river. While returning back I asked >> my Bhabi who has huge interest in garden plants to keep watch on our side >> of the river, and finally was able to capture this Himalayan beauty, my >> last capture yesterday. Paeonia emodi Wall. ex Royle, Ill. bot. Himal. >> Mts. 1(2):57. 1834 >> Common name: Himalayan peony >> Hindi: Ud-salap >> Punjab: Mamekh, chandra >> Kashmir: Mid >> >> Robust perennial often up to 1 m tall; leaves alternate, 30-60 cm long >> with 3 leaflets, each commonly 3-parted into up to 15 cm long lanceolate >> entire segments; flowers 7-12 cm across, white, each on long stalk; sepals >> 5, orbicular, green, persistent; petals 5-10, ovate, concave; stamens >> numerous with yellow anthers; carpels 1-3, hairy; follicle usually 1, 3-4 >> cm long. >> >> Photographed from hilly slope on way between Aishmuqam and Pahalgam. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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/~singhg45/> >> >> -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
