Ushadi Garden breeders and cultivar developers have to keep busy to give some thing new to the plant lovers.
-- 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 Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Ushadi Micromini <[email protected]>wrote: > Thank you, nice to remember these differences, but what confuses me more > is the vast numbers of cultivars that I see in India and in American > southwest and in Florida. > > Usha di > > > On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:19 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Genus Campsis has been confusing me a lot for quite some time. >> Traditionally two species of this genus are recognized as common garden >> trumpet creepers: >> >> *Campsis grandiflora*: leaflets 7-9; glabrous beneath; 4-7 cm long, >> paler green; calyx 5-lobed to middle; flowers orange to scarlet, corolla >> tube nearly one and half times as long as calyx, limb nearly 5-6 cm across; >> capsule 10-15 cm long, obtuse at apex, without beak. >> >> *Campsis radicans*: leaflets 9-11, pubescent beneath especially along >> midreib and main veins, dark green above; calyx shortly 5-lobed, lobes less >> than 1/3 the tube; flowers orange with scarlet limb, 2-3 times as long as >> calyx, usually less than 4 cm across; capsule cylindric-oblong, 7-12 cm >> long, keeled along sutures, beaked at apex. >> >> I have been following the specimens of Campsis in Delhi, Kashmir, >> California and other places and frankly have not been able to locate a true >> sample of C. gandiflora. Most of the samples found in Kashmir and Delhi >> which look like C. grandiflora do not bear fruits, flowers fall off when >> mature and number of leaflets varry from 7-11 (-13). This sterile hybrid is >> actually C. X tagliabuana, a hybrid between C. radicans and C. grandiflora. >> Both specimens at at FOI (C. radicans as well as C. grandiflora) i think >> belong to this hybrid species, which is propagated by cuttings. >> >> *I would be extremely happy if any member is able to find and can upload >> a true specimen of C. grandiflora (7-9 leaflets, leaflets glabrous beneath, >> calyx divided up to middle, corolla tube 1 1/2 times as long as calyx, more >> important it produces fruits which are 10-15 cm long and without beak at >> tip)* >> * >> * >> >> -- >> 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 > =========== > --
