Thank you Sir I thought the could be berries in the process of falling... and getting stuck..?? but I have never seen red galls... I have seen brown, yellow, orangishbrown and beige... this is first red gall on leaf... thanks Usha di =
On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> =========== >> >> > > > > -- Usha di =========== --
