On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Bhagyashri <[email protected]> wrote:
> June and July 2012 Pune > Kindly help Id this wild herb with purple leaves, pink buds and white > flowers. Probably IMG_0752 shows the fruit. The buds are very delicate and > most of the times drop off without opening. Is it Oxalis spp? > Thanks and regards > Bhagyashri > yes, it is Oxalis corniculata. Cooke has given very good distribution about this. He has also given the flower colours as yellow, rosy or even white. Fruit description also matching cent percent i.e. linear-oblong, 5-angled, shortly beaked, tomentose. Regards, I remain, *Rajendra Kshirsagar,* Ph. D. I Manager (R&D), Godrej Consumer Products Ltd., I Vikhroli (East), Mumbai I 022/67976797 I [email protected] I
