Here are flowers of Water Cress Nasturtium officinale and Sium latijugum http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Large%20Leaflet%20Water%20Parsnip.html
http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Watercress.html 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 15, 2015 at 7:01 PM, Ashwini Bhatia <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
