very nice leaves ' details, Gurcharanji I wish you also have flower inconspicuous thought it may be and an ugly duckling of the lily family I would love to see some
I understand there are hundreds of acres of these planted as a farming community is now organized and selling packaged hygienic processed makhana . SO our botany members from Bihar should have access to a lot of the area ? usha di On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > *Euryale ferox* Salisb. in Kon. & Sims, Ann. Bot. 21.74. 1806. > Makhana in Hindi > > Equatic perennial herb with orbicular peltate leaves up to 1 m in diam, > strongly corrugated especially beneath, veins very prominent, prickly along > veins on both surfaces; sepals 4, triangular-ovate, concave, violet pink > inside, prickly outside; petals many,, outer dark violet, inner > successively fading to white; stamens numerous, outer longer than inner; > fruit a berry, globose-ovoid, prickly, up to 10 cm across. > Photographed from Herbal Garden, Punjabi Bagh, New Delhi > > 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/d/optout. > -- Usha di =========== -- 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/d/optout.
