Dear Gurcharan Sir, Thanks for raising this question. My identity was based on the herbarium specimens kept in ASSAM. I may be wrong. Would like to know the correct identity.
Best regards, Ritesh. On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 9:21 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > I have some doubt on this because Balanophora involucrata that we had > collected in around 1970 or so from J & K looked exactly like a red > mushroom with cap and stipe and in fact we thought it to be some fungus > till we discovered flowers. I had published it in Science Reporter as Singh, > Gurcharan. 1972. A Flowering mushroom? *Science Reporter*. *9*(5): > 236-237. Here are some links from the net: > > > http://shanbao.growing123.info/flora/balanophora.asp > http://shanbao.growing123.info/flora/balanophora.asp > > > http://www.calacademy.org/science_now/archive/where_in_the_world/china_2002.php > > > http://www.parasiticplants.siu.edu/Balanophoraceae/images/Bal_invol2.jpg > > > > http://www.parasiticplants.siu.edu/Balanophoraceae/images/BalInvolucrata2.jpg > > I am also attaching photograph of my dried specimen > > -- > 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, Oct 27, 2012 at 1:55 AM, Nidhan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Very nice, new for me..thanks Ritesh Ji.. >> >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Dr. Nidhan Singh >> Assisstant Professor >> Department of Botany >> I.B. (PG) College >> Panipat-132103 Haryana >> Ph.: 09416371227 >> >> -- >> >> >> >> > > > > > -- Ritesh Kumar Choudhary, Ph.D. International Biological Material Research Center Korea Research Institute of Bioscience & Biotechnology 125, Gwahak-ro, Yuseong-gu Daejeon South Korea-305-806 +82-42-879-8342 (O) http://www.kribb.re.kr "It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure." -- Albert Einstein --
