Gurcharan ji: I am glad for the diagnosis that thread is at https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!search/gurcharan$20usha$20Shangrilla/indiantreepix/41IUQYLl1bI/X32ACHcQcycJ in case one want to look at the pictures for comparison and contrast with this one...
my comment about this : so can two species be grown so close, would not it cross pollinate? And Dave's garden is wonderful, now its owned by a MNC type company, and I wonder if it will retain the same grass roots appeal and enthusiasm it once had among the academics and advance gardeners... I hope for the best to continue, still one wonders... Thanks for the lesson here... Usha di *PS* oh I forgot to mention that uc Berkeley Bot garden used to have a stand of the american licorice Glycyrrhiza lepidota ... if you have a chance it would be interesting to compare its fruits ... flower is almost white anyway... but it should be fruiting by now... anothe bot g in SF bay area used to also, I am blanking the name... and UCLA bot had the glabra... ------------------- On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > *Glycyrrhiza pallidiflora* Maximowicz, Prim. Fl. Amur. 79. 1859 > > Last year I had uploaded a plant from Herbal Garden in Srinagar, gardener > gave its name as Shangrilla. Based on leads from Ushadi earlier and Daves > garden yesterday, it probably is Glycyrrhiza yunnanensis. > This plant was growing in the same garden, different in darker fruits, > in more globose cluster, broader fruit suddently narrowed at tip. This > according to Flora of China identifies with G. pallidiflora. > > Perennial herb up to 1.5 m tall, glabrous; leaves odd-pinnate, up to 20 cm > long with 9-15 lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate leaflets; racemes oblong to > globose, shorter than leaves; flowers light to deep purple or purple-red; > bracts ovate-lanceolate; calyx campanulate, 4-5 mm long, pubescent at base; > corolla with standard ovate, 7-8 mm long; legume 10-15 mm long, rigidly > spiny, apex acuminate; seeds 2, black. > > Photographed from Herbal Garden, Srinagar, Kashmir. > > -- > 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 =========== --
