Thank you sir for sharing these pictures, and your academic contribution and explanations of this species.
regards, Rashida. On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 5:48 PM, tanay bose <[email protected]> wrote: > A a long belated best wished to you !! > > More images and description from : > http://www.missouriplants.com/Yellowalt/Senecio_vulgaris_page.html > > Regards > Tanay > > > On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Senecio vulgaris L. from Kashmir, growing as weed in fields and flower >> beds, mostly in semishaded areas. Easily differentiated from other species >> by its annual habit, black-tipped phyllaries and absence of ray florets. >> This plant coincidently was the beginning of my training in plant >> taxonomy. This plant was given to us as a specimen for practical >> examination, Our teacher had identified it as Sonchus sp., so when I sat for >> describing plant (I had habit of describing plants from original, and not >> from memory) I found only disc florests. We were given Hooker's Flora of >> British India to identify the genus from key, and though I found problem in >> matching Sonchus, which has only ray florets, I managed to identify this as >> Sonchus, simply because our teacher had earlier identified the plant as >> such. >> When I joined research, my doubts led me to study this plant as the >> first one, as it was growing very commonly in our campus, and soon >> identified it as Senecio vulgaris, and reported it as first record of the >> species from our state, perhaps my first publication. >> >> -- >> 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://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ <http://people.du.ac.in/%7Esinghg45/> >> >> > > > -- > Tanay Bose > +91(033) 25550676 (Resi) > 9830439691(Mobile) > > >
