The plant was grown in the pond in Herbal Garden, Punjabi Bagh, is now almost vanishing as pond is drying up and other weeds are taking over. It (whorled pennywort) is often grown in aquaria. By the way now the correct name is H. verticillata according to Kew Plant List.
-- 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://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Balkar Arya <balkara...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is cultivated there or growing wildly? Not seen in Haryana anywhere > > > On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hydrocotyle prolifera Kellogg >> Plant of Caribbean North America, growing along pond in Herbal Garden, >> Delhi >> Common name: Whorled marshpennywort >> >> (Syn: H. verticillata var. triradiata (A. Rich.) Fern. , H. triradiata; >> H. >> australis Coult. & Rose; H. canbyi Coult. & Rose) >> >> >> >> 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://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >> >> > > > -- > Regards > > Dr Balkar Singh > Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology > Arya P G College, Panipat > Haryana-132103 > 09416262964 >
