Gurcharanji: Wonderful saga of how to search for an unknown... thank you ...
I am a bit confused though.. I searched thru Malvaceae lists and did not find Correa... finally just googled* Correa alba* and first thing I got was this wiki link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correa_alba which says its a Rutaceae ... looking forward to info from you thanks Usha di PS *so this plant is also a salt tolerant white flowered one... just like the ** Carissa macrocarpa... I find the superficial similarities quite interesting... one from Australia another from south africa.. both grown in California... * On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Prashant Awale <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ >> >> -- >> >> >> >> > > -- > > > > -- Usha di =========== --
