Thanks Ushadi for pointing out. I wonder how I wrote Malvaceae instead of Rutaceae. Perhaps the age is catching up.
-- 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 Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 2:20 AM, ushadi Micromini <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > =========== > > --
