Yes Ushadi Perhaps Mani ji can help with more photographs.
-- 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 Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 10:12 AM, ushadi Micromini < [email protected]> wrote: > to me the inflorescence itself tells me its not vitex negundo... > > what to do...??/ > > never seen such squarish looking inflorescence in vitex negundo... until > last storm I myself had three vitex negundo shrubs in my yard... originals > were identified by botanists at the Hort. > > and in decades past had grown vitex agnus-castus ( vitex vitex in the > nursery trade as it came in labeled. ) and the garden below the world trade > center also grew masses of them from the same nursery... > > this set of pictures to my eyes such as they are not representative of any > of the two I have grown myself... > > You know I am perfectly willing to learn... but I would need more > telling pictures...sorry > > Usha di > > > > On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Ushadi >> Vitex vitex is a tautonym that won't be allowed in botany (although such >> names are accepted in Zoology). The plant often so named, and commonly >> Chaste tree is Vitex agnus-castus. The above plant is not this species >> which has lateral flower clusters almost sessile so that the whole infl. >> looks more like a spike and not a panicle. More so it is rare to find 3 >> leaflets in this species. >> Agreed above plant, although having inflorescence of V. negundo, has >> much different leaves, the leaflets being green on both sides. The plant >> looks closest to Vitex negundo var. cannabifolia (syn: V. cannabifolia), >> although distant shot does not show whether leaflets are serrate or not. >> >> >> -- >> 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 Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 4:17 AM, jmgarg1 <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. >>> >>> Some earlier relevant feedback: >>> >>> several points: >>> this may be a vitex, but I doubt that its negundo... the inflorescence >>> is not typical... >>> >>> will need to wait for expert opinion on the classification... >>> -- >>> secondly ... >>> vitex negundo is not the chaste tree... no female hormone-like >>> chemicals.. >>> >>> the Vitex vitex is the chaste tree that was grown by franscican and >>> other monks to reduce the testosterone and reduce the urges etc...so that >>> prayers could be focused on.. hence called the chaste tree... >>> >>> if you once see the flowering and fruiting spikes in the two ... you'll >>> never forget the difference between the two... >>> >>> usha di >>> >>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> From: Mani Nair <[email protected]> >>> Date: 20 September 2012 19:01 >>> Subject: [efloraofindia:131743] Vitex negundo (Chaste tree) - MN200912 >>> To: [email protected] >>> >>> >>> Vitex negundo (Chaste tree) >>> Place : Dombivli >>> Date : 20.09.2012 >>> Growing on the border of paddy field >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Mani >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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 1950 members >>> & 1,27,800 messages on 31/8/12) 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 > =========== > > --
