According to Plants of the World Online,* Echinops sphaerocephalus* L. is not distributed in India at all!
http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:202677-1 I presume the pics on FOI were clicked in the wild. Tabish ------------------------------------------- <http://www.flowersofindia.net>www.flowersofindia.net The waterhole of flower lovers On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 10:52 AM J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote: > Image of Echinops echinatus in FOI > <http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Indian%20Globe%20Thistle.html> > by Ravi Vaidya should be of Echinops sphaerocephalus > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/ar/asteraceae/carduoideae/echinops/echinops-sphaerocephalus> > as > per images, details and references herein. > I request Tabish ji to pl. correct. > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> > > Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. > > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the > world- more than 3,000 members & 3,00,000 messages on 23.8.18) or > Efloraofindia > website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species > database of more than 12,000 species & 3,00,000 images of which more than > 1,70,000 images are directly displayed). > > The whole world uses my Image Resource > <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> 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. > > 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 view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CALTV20cFzek11mhzK6t--crj_MM%2B0Fw1dvOhqeDnB6BmP4fPdg%40mail.gmail.com.