*Dear ALL: and Mr. Pradhan.... YEs certainly... happy to see it in India and to tell you all its a Balloon cotton bush, a good food source for monarch butterfly caterpillars...
its scientific name is Asclepias physiocarpa... wike will tell you many other detais I am sure... read it at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asclepias_physocarpa Mr Pradhan... can your friends granchild tell you if she is saving the seeds? although its a perennial in her garden, other's may want to plant it for butterfly food... Thanks Usha di* ====== On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:13 AM, jmgarg1 <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > > Forwarding for Id assistance please. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Ganesh Mani Pradhan <[email protected]> > Date: 7 August 2012 15:09 > Subject: Id of plaqnt and flower > To: "J.M. Garg" <[email protected]> > > > Dear Garg-ji, > > Greetings from Kalimpong. A friend's daughter who is a faculty member at IGNOU > in Delhi posted the attached pictures in a Facebook group for > identification. It used to grow in her grandfathers garden about 2km away > from where I live. Could you please help in identification? > > Thank you. > > Ganesh M. Pradhan > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species*& > eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged > alphabetically & place-wise): > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use > them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: > http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1900 members & > 1,23,300 messages on 31/7/12) or Efloraofindia website: > https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database > of more than 7000 species). > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > > -- Usha di =========== --
