Dear Tabish, pictures at FOI are certainly from wild. Whether spines conspicuously rising out of flower head is a feature differentiating *E. echinatus* from another species, or is just a variation - needs checking.
The *Echinops sphaerocephalus* L. arose with my post of *Echinops* for validation at facebook <https://www.facebook.com/groups/indianflora/permalink/2795013973873257/>. >From the discussion, it looked like the species is found in north-western parts of India. Hope we reach to correct ID. Regards. Dinesh On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 9:11 PM Tabish <tabi...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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/CABSQqC19Z37y%3D_X%3D9opM2Vvm%2BEuCrNu9Z5QfqUO%3Dm5duJYp2Gg%40mail.gmail.com.
