Dear All: REMEMBER: In Emergency wards we were taught that Leaves of Hemlock look remarkably like that of CARROTS... dead give away... PUN intended.... very much intended...
ALSO nothing cute or exotic about it.... sometimes mistaken for queen anne's lace because of flowers, but the stem gives it away... *Gurcharanji... why does one of your pictures have Shankaracharya in the pictures label?* thanks usha di On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 7:45 PM, R Kannan <[email protected]> wrote: > After referring the characters I also decide that it might be Sambucus > Rds > > > On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> No please, Sambucus only. >> Since you say it is a shrub up to 10 ft tall, it can be S. nigra >> (leaflets usually 5, elliptic, flowers yellowish white), or S. canadensis >> (leaflets usually 7, elliptic-lanceolate, flowers white). >> >> Sambubus adnata (Eastern Himalayas) and S. wightiana (Western Himalayas) >> are both perennial herbs. >> >> Conium maculatum is a also a herbaceous plant of Apiaceae family with >> flowers in umbels and much narrower leaflets. I am again attaching the >> plants. >> >> There is absolutely no reason to confuse between Conium and Sambucus, >> where flowers are in corymbs (not umbels) and leaves unipinnate with much >> broader leaflets. >> >> >> -- >> 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 Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Rajendra Kshirsagar < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Dear Gurucharanji, >>> Are following plants the Conium maculatum? >>> >>> Shrubs up to 10 feet high >>> Stem: Angular hairy >>> Leaves: imparipinnate; two to three pair and last one, deeply serrate, >>> green above paler beneath. >>> Flowers: Small, white in umbels >>> >>> -- >>> 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Rajendra Kshirsagar < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:05 PM, KANNAN <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Request for identification >>>>> >>>> >>>> It is Conium maculatum, >>>> its exotic plant. >>>> >>>> >>>> https://www.google.co.in/search?q=conium+maculatum&hl=en&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=MSAJUKnDO4rqrQeRmaDJCA&sqi=2&ved=0CHQQsAQ&biw=1366&bih=587 >>>> >>>> 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > -- Usha di ===========
