Ushadi When I reached Kashmir this year in early May, Flowering has already finished so what you can see are enlarged calyx surrounding developing fruit with some stamens still sticking around in the first photograph. The second and third photographs are from a higher elevation when entering the valley, where some flowering was still there. What you see as red structure if leaf gall and not berry. It is on the leaf. The flowers (rather inflorescence you can see at the tips of braches with white-creamish bracts.
-- 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, Sep 23, 2012 at 12:31 AM, ushadi Micromini < [email protected]> wrote: > Very nice > > But I am not sure what I am looking at in the first picture... what is > the green stuff and then the grey-beige roundish strictures? > > and in the third picture I think I see one round red and one partly > visible red ??? berry?/ > is that what it is? > > > Do these branches grow stouter for the walking sticks?/ > > thanks, Gurcharanji > usha di > > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> *Parrotiopsis jacquemontiana* (Dcne.) Rehder >> Syn: *Parrotia jacquemontiana* Dcne. >> >> Local name: Hatab >> >> A deciduous shrub with suborbicular crenate-serrate leaves; flowers >> small, forming a head surrounded by white showy bracts, whole infl. looking >> like a flower about 5-7 cm across; calyx gamosepalous, campanulate, >> persistent, adhering to ovary; corolla absent; stamens 15, erect with 3-4 >> mm long filaments; ovary woolly, bilocular with two styles; fruit capsule, >> clustered. >> >> Locally common on lower hills in Kashmir. Photographed from Dachhigam and >> below Jawahar Tunnel in Kashmir >> >> Very important fuelwood and for making walking sticks, >> >> >> -- >> 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 > =========== > > --
