Please read common name as Bridal Wreath
-- 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/ On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > I had photographed this plant in May this year, knowing that I had seen > this plant earlier but could not place it. Aarti ji also uploaded this > plant but I could not help her. Today while scanning and making pdf file of > my old publications, I stumbled upon this plant from this entry: > > "A deciduous shrub with slender branches, 2-5 cm long denticulate leaves, > flowers white, double in sessile umbels" > > and I knew, I had my plant. The plant was originally recognised as Spiraea > prunifolia var. plena Schneid., but is now considered merely as type > variety. I had compiled this paper in 1975 published only in 1983, as I had > left for Delhi in 1975. > > *Spiraea prunifolia Schneid.*, Ill. Handb. Laubholzk. 1(4): 450 450 1905. > var. *prunifolia* > > Common name: Bridal Wealth > > Deciduous shrub, up to 1.8 m tall with slender arching branches, finely > pubescent when young; leaves ovate-elliptic, 25-45 mm long, finely toothed, > softly pubescent beneath; flowers white, double, 9-12 mm in diam, in > sessile 3-6 flowered umbels; pedicels 12-25 mm long, bracts leaf-like, 5-7 > mm long; hypanthium hairy outside, shorter than sepals; sepals > triangular-ovate, 1.5-2 mm long; petals white longer than sepals, obovate > to suborbicular. > > Often planted in gardens, photographed from above Cheshma Shahi and Harwan > Garden in Kashmir. > > I am also enclosing the paper so that any one visiting Kashmir may be > benefitted. > > -- > 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/ > >
