Thanks Ushadi for useful information. I would surely check for it here.
-- 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 Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 10:46 PM, ushadi Micromini < [email protected]> wrote: > Thank you,Gurcharanji, these berries are different looking... > these are separate, the bunch seems pointing towards the earth... > as opposed to the poison sumac berry bunches seen in north america... > not sure if it occurs in SF where you are right ow but if you go to the > mountains or into oregon I have seen them... since they are weeds never > took time to really photograph them... but being a keen botanist I am > sure you'll spot them... very soon the leaves would change colors too... > their berries individually are quite small... but tightly packed.. almost > as tightly as millet or jowar is packed... > > still with the difference in berries... the leaves /twigs/juice behaved > like a rhus anyway... family of allergenic plants... Lesson to learn. I > did. Thanks > Usha di > -- > > > > > On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 7:41 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Ushadi >> Luckily I have some photographs of drupe (not ripe though) taken last >> year on July 30. This year I photographed flowers in May. >> I am uploading the photographs of drupes. >> >> >> -- >> 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 Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 4:45 PM, ushadi Micromini < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Yes, this is Sumac.. Thnaks for the flower picture , I never went too >>> near to look this closely, Hope you wer safe distance this time around. >>> >>> colloquially called Poison sumac... name implies stay away from its sap >>> or the "oil" on the surface of the leaves...just like POiSON IVY and POISON >>> OAK" in north america, grows in road sides where the disturbed soil is ... >>> >>> Usually all SUMACs do not grow as majestically tall or wide as the >>> Ailanthus altissima... so once they are fully grown they can be >>> distuinguished... and the sumac leaves also turn red before falling off in >>> winter. >>> >>> DID you ever get to photograph their berries? >>> >>> USha di >>> >>> On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> *Rhus succedanea* var. *himalaica* Hook.f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 2:12. 1876. >>>> >>>> Tree can be confused with Ailanthus altissima also growing commonly in >>>> Kashmir valley, but can be differentiated by much thinner totally entire >>>> glabrous leaves (somewhat thicker, serrate and hairy beneath in A. >>>> altissima), smaller flower and fruit being a small up to 1 cm long drupe >>>> (3-5 cm long samara in A. altissima). Deciduous tree with glabrous >>>> branches; leaves up to 50 cm long, imparipinnate with 9-13 leaflets, >>>> menbranous; flowers pale yellowish-white, in pubescent panicles shorter >>>> than leaves; calyx lobes ovate-obtuse; petals pale yellowish-green; styles >>>> 3; fruit a drupe up to 8 mm broad, slightly longer, yellowish brown. >>>> >>>> I was first introduced to this tree back in 1971 when returning after a >>>> collection trip to Dachhigam sanctuary (my research area) I rushed to a >>>> doctor with lots of itching and blisters on my arms and hands. Doctor asked >>>> me if I had touched some new plant, and I got the answer. Juice of this >>>> plant (cut twigs in my case) can cause skin irritation. >>>> Photographed from Dachhigam, Kashmir. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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/ >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Usha di >>> =========== >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > -- > Usha di > =========== > > --
