A tentative description and illustration from Eflora of China Description:: http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=200010590
Illustration:: http://www.efloras.org/object_page.aspx?object_id=115268&flora_id=5 Tanay On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Platanus orientails the most famous chinar tree of Kashmir, very commonly > grown in Parks, Gardens and avenues. There is a famous garden in Dal lake > known as char chinar, with four trees of chinar, a favourite tourist spot. > Another example of vicariance. Its American couterpart is P. occidentalis. > > I am providing the link of P. occidentalis for comparison: > > > http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.sbs.utexas.edu/bio406d/images/pics/plt/Platanus%2520occidentalis%2520leaf2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.sbs.utexas.edu/bio406d/images/pics/plt/platanus_occidentalis.htm&usg=__VXyK4zJQE5siN8AZOi__FoKShS4=&h=480&w=640&sz=47&hl=en&start=2&sig2=Xws8mIL2YLUALwuIqzu98w&itbs=1&tbnid=U3gv4-iHcyLmPM:&tbnh=103&tbnw=137&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dplatanus%2Boccidentalis%26hl%3Den%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:1&ei=QbQ9TPTlJpW0cJGv6KIB > > -- > 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)
