Thank you sir for sharing these pictures. It is *Echium plantagineum* for sure.
Best wishes, and apologies for the delay in responding ... had gone out for the weekend and just saw your email. Viplav El 22 de febrero de 2014, 9:59, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> escribió: > > I am attaching more cropped picture focussing leaf base and flower to help > Viplav ji to identify mine conclusively. > > 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 Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> *Echium plantagineum* L., Mant. pl. 2:202. 1771 >> syn: *Echium lycopsis* L.; *E. violaceum* L. >> >> >> Common names: Blue echium, blueweed >> >> This plant was uploaded by me, possibly as Echium vulagare, but luckily >> Tabish ji raised doubt about it. On further discussion with Mr. Anzar from >> Kahmir University it was finally identified as Echium plantagineum, >> differentiated by three stamens being very short and included, where as two >> are longer and exserted. >> >> Erect biennial herb up to 60 cm tall, covered with white stiff hairs; >> basal leaves 4-12 cm long, ovate to oblong, upper smaaler, narrowly >> lanceolate, covered with appressed hairs; flowers blue in panicles, 12-18 >> mm long; corolla campanulate, distinctly zygomorphic, sparsely hairy >> outside; stamens 5, 2 exserted, 3 included; nutlets 4. >> >> Photographed from Harwan, 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/ >> >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
