Forwarding again for any assistance in the matter please. Some earlier relevant feedback:
Dear Wojciech My photographs are already on Flowers of India. http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Edgeworth's%20Balsam.html I am attaching some more views from same population in Baramulla Kashmir, alt. 1600 m. Here are my other uploads that may interest you: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/indiantreepix/Impatiens$20brachycentra/indiantreepix/JNr9FuS2sME/HdW9buQwac0J https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/indiantreepix/Impatiens$20glandulifera/indiantreepix/0-pr4LLRN_w/ILAQhz1SLuAJ In the mean time would it not be good idea to devote 2-3 days exclusively to this genus wherein members can upload all their collections Impatiens, to have them critically examined by you. Or else it may run concurrent with Brassicaceae week early November with separate subject line "Impatiens uploads:...................(name/ID code for unknown sp.) from ...............(place)" -- Dr. Gurcharan Singh ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Wojciech Adamowski <[email protected]> Date: 21 October 2012 23:13 Subject: [efloraofindia:135825] Impatiens edgeworthii in Germany To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Dear Indian Flora Lovers,****** I. edgeworthii, coming from Western and Central Himalayas and rather rare in cultivation was found as spontaneous plant in ******Germany****.**** Baade H., Gutte P. 2008. Impatiens edgeworthii Hook. f. – ein für Deutschland neues Springkraut. Braunschweiger Geobotanische Arbeiten 9: 55-63. (in German)**** However, there are some differences between descriptions in Flora of Pakistan and description given by German authors:**** 1) Nasir in FoP gives height 25-**60 cm**, whereas Baade and Gutte upto **180 cm**!**** 2) Hooker f. gives color of flowers as yellow and red, Nasir as yellow streaked red in the throat, whereas Baade and Gutte give much broader spectrum: yellow, yellow-white, whitish and pale violet**** 3) Nasir gives two forms - one with bigger flowers and another with flowers much smaller**** 4) Some plants have flowers heavily streaked, some only very weakly (see pictures). Plant seems to be very variable.**** **** Pictures:**** http://www.uni-potsdam.de/botanischergarten/pflanzeninfo/sehenswert/bilder/2012-40/Impatiens_edgeworthii.jpg **** http://gera-greiz.nabu-thueringen.de/downloads/2012/120717_einleger2-2012.pdf **** http://www.flickr.com/photos/10674076@N08/926304210/**** http://www.asianflora.com/Balsaminaceae/Impatiens-edgeworthii.htm**** https://naturfotografen-forum.de/o418750-Indisches+(Dr%C3%BCsiges)+Springkraut+in+Gelb **** http://www.tuinplanteninfo.nl/2011%20Webfoto/Foto%20Databank%20Eenjarigen%20I%20Impatiens%20Edgeworthii%202.htm **** http://botu07.bio.uu.nl/tropical/?gal=default&genus=Impatiens&name=&id=2269#current **** http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Edgeworth's%20Balsam.html**** **** If anybody has personal experience :-) with **I.** edgeworthii, please contact me**** Wojciech**** -- -- 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 2000 members & 1,37,000 messages on 31/10/12) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 7500 species). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. --
