Thank you Dr Singh. We ate it and it was quite delicious. I was suspecting it to be of the watercress family but I may be wrong.
If I am not mistaken it's called Chunali in the local dialect. My friend here says that it bears white flowers. May be Dr Chauhan or Anil Thakur ji know what that is. Ushadi: I will keep a lookout for flowers and post. Thanks and regards, Ashwini On 14-Mar-2015, at 8:56 am, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Please note pinnate leaves, it can't be Ipomoea. > To me it looks like Sium latijugum. Some other species are edible, but I > don't know about this one. > Ushadi one more Palak for you. > > 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, Mar 8, 2015 at 8:37 PM, Ashwini Bhatia <[email protected]> > wrote: > I bought two bunches of this for twenty rupees from a street vendor today in > Dharamshala. He called it Jal Palak or Water Spinach and advised me to cook > it as saag. I photographed it at home before we cook it tomorrow morning. I > believe it is collected in the wild. > > It doesn't look like Ipomoea aquatica to me. Please advise. > > Dharamshala, HP > 1500m > 8 March 2015 > > Thanks. > Ashwini > > <IMG_2732_8March15.jpg><IMG_2733_8March15.jpg><IMG_2736_8March15.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 [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. > -- 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 an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
