Again - I am far, far away from my favourite plants and I know them mostly from pictures... Original description of I. bicolor depicts plant with rosa and yellow flowers - upper petal completely and upper lateral petal partially are rosa, the rest of flower yellow wit eventual markings. Such plants were found recently escaped in Oregon. Your plant is apparently not this form. I can try to recgnize it in my spare time, but it would take more time. There are at least 16 different species of Impatiens known from Himachal Pradesh and there could be some still omitted by botanists. So keep your eyes open on this interesting, but difficult genus. I just checked posts on eFI group seeking for pictures of recently described I. devendrae and I found it in this state and even in nearby Jammu & Kashmir. Best regards Wojciech
13:15 niedziela, 2014-10-5, Ashwini Bhatia <ashw...@ashwinibhatia.com> napisał(a): Thank you Wojciech. There are a few Balsam plants here with varying degree of yellow. I agree they are most likely to be all Impatiens scabrida. Could the pink one be Impatiens bicolor? Regards, Ashwini On 05-Oct-2014, at 4:33 pm, Wojciech Adamowski <kruszczyk1...@yahoo.com> wrote: Yellow one should be I. scabrida, if the plant is less or more hairy and upper petal has a horn. >As far as I saw on different pictures there is variability in shade of yellow >and quantity of markings on lower sepal. >White/rosa one is rather not I. balfourii, at least not the form cultivated >and escaped in Europe. Proportion of upper petal to lateral petals is >different. >In European I. balfourii upper petal is rather small and flowers distinctly >bicolored - white and rosa or white and lavender (white upper petal and upper >lateral petal), with only minor yellow markings inside lower sepal. Lower >lateral petal is bigger and broader than in your plant. >However, I can decide which species is matching your plant. >Best regards Wojciech > > > >10:07 niedziela, 2014-10-5, J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> napisał(a): > > >Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. >Some earlier relevant feedback: >efi page on Impatiens scabrida (Rugged Yellow Balsam) & FOI page on Impatiens >balfourii (Balfour's Balsam) > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >From: Ashwini Bhatia <ashw...@ashwinibhatia.com> >Date: 28 September 2014 19:16 >Subject: [efloraofindia:201746] Balsam >To: efloraofindia <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com> > > >The Rugged Yellow Balsam looked yellower this morning germinating a doubt if I >was identifying it correctly. The other pink one should be Balfour's Balsam, >but again I could not be certain. Please advise. > >About 1800m, Mcleodganj, Dharamshala, HP >28 September 2014 > >Thanks. >Ashwini > ><IMG_5567_iPhone28Sep14.jpg><IMG_5569_iPhone28Sep14.jpg> > >-- >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 indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >To post to this group, send email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. >Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. >For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > >-- >With regards, >J.M.Garg >'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). 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 (largest in the world- >more than 2400 members & 2,00,000 messages on 9.9.14) or Efloraofindia website >(with a species database of more than 10,000 species & 2,00,000 images). >Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia. >Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. > > > -- 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 indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
