Another nice upload from California and its really great to see your efforts in getting the ID. Thanks. Regards Prashant
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 7:09 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Correa alba Andrews > > Botany Bay Tea Tree > > This interesting Australian shrub cultivated here in California really > tested my botany. I started from appearance of flower, tetramerous flowers > and 8 stamens to look for some species of Daphne, only to learn that it has > both calyx and corolla and fruit a capsule splitting into four parts, not > expected of Daphne. Key in the Manual of cultivated Plants led me to family > Ericaceae to find that it does not match any listed there. Only when I > uploaded to TAXACOM that I received a suggestion from Prof. Stevens (who > maintains APWeb website) that it could be Correa, a member of Malvaceae. > Only when I tried to pull apart corolla lobes that I found these are > connivent petals and not fused petals. > > Photographed in Sunnyvale, California > > -- > 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/ > > -- > > > > --
