I have not seen the Himalayan plant but seems it has smaller flowers ( ca 2 cm across) than A. chinensis (ca 4 cm across) and much longer hairs on the undersurface of leaves.
-- 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/ On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Ritesh Kumar Choudhary < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear Sir, > > Thanks for sharing the beautiful photographs. But I cannot make out any > difference between A. chinensis and A. strigosa which is cultivated in > Nepal, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh. Kindly enlighten us on this. > > Regards, > Ritesh. >

