Thanks, Gurcharanji... so this plant was on that hill!!! Seems its a hill with undulations with four peaks, I see a transmission tower or such on the distant most peak... we are not leaving any place pristine!!!
The jeel looks neat and clean... no lotuses? usha di ps I agree that any spam message must be deleted ... not allowed to make rounds ... = On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ushadi > Yes the leaves look like carrot somewhat, although tips are more sharper > in Daucus and inflorescence with long dissected bracts much different. In > fact leaves of many umbellifers Chaerophyllum, Apium, Daucus, Conium, > Anthriscus, Selinum look somewhat similar in appearance. > Shankeracharya is the famous hill in the heart of Srinagar city, with > Shankeracharya temple at the top of it, a regular attraction for visiters. > In between when Moghuls ruled the country it was known as Takhat-a-Sulaiman. > There is another small hill in the heart of the city known as > Hariparbat, with a fort on the top of it and a huge wall (somewhat similar > to Great Wall of China) say 40-50 ft tall and 15-20 ft. wide, all around > the base of this hill. It is said that this wall was constructed by a king > to put people on job at at a time when there was scarcity of employment in > the valley. > I am attaching distant shots of both. > > -- > 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://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 6:06 AM, ushadi Micromini < > microminipho...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear All: >> REMEMBER: In Emergency wards we were taught that Leaves of Hemlock look >> remarkably like that of CARROTS... dead give away... PUN intended.... >> very much intended... >> >> ALSO nothing cute or exotic about it.... sometimes mistaken for queen >> anne's lace because of flowers, but the stem gives it away... >> >> *Gurcharanji... why does one of your pictures have Shankaracharya in the >> pictures label?* >> >> thanks >> usha di >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 7:45 PM, R Kannan <rkm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> After referring the characters I also decide that it might be Sambucus >>> Rds >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>>> No please, Sambucus only. >>>> Since you say it is a shrub up to 10 ft tall, it can be S. nigra >>>> (leaflets usually 5, elliptic, flowers yellowish white), or S. canadensis >>>> (leaflets usually 7, elliptic-lanceolate, flowers white). >>>> >>>> Sambubus adnata (Eastern Himalayas) and S. wightiana (Western >>>> Himalayas) are both perennial herbs. >>>> >>>> Conium maculatum is a also a herbaceous plant of Apiaceae family with >>>> flowers in umbels and much narrower leaflets. I am again attaching the >>>> plants. >>>> >>>> There is absolutely no reason to confuse between Conium and Sambucus, >>>> where flowers are in corymbs (not umbels) and leaves unipinnate with much >>>> broader leaflets. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ >>>> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Rajendra Kshirsagar < >>>> kshirsagar150...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Dear Gurucharanji, >>>>> Are following plants the Conium maculatum? >>>>> >>>>> Shrubs up to 10 feet high >>>>> Stem: Angular hairy >>>>> Leaves: imparipinnate; two to three pair and last one, deeply serrate, >>>>> green above paler beneath. >>>>> Flowers: Small, white in umbels >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Regards, I remain, >>>>> >>>>> *Rajendra Kshirsagar,* Ph. D. I Manager (R&D), Godrej Consumer >>>>> Products Ltd., I Vikhroli (East), Mumbai I >>>>> 022/67976797 I drkshirsa...@yahoo.com I >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Rajendra Kshirsagar < >>>>> kshirsagar150...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:05 PM, KANNAN <kannan_r...@dataone.in>wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Request for identification >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> It is Conium maculatum, >>>>>> its exotic plant. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> https://www.google.co.in/search?q=conium+maculatum&hl=en&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=MSAJUKnDO4rqrQeRmaDJCA&sqi=2&ved=0CHQQsAQ&biw=1366&bih=587 >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards, I remain, >>>>>> >>>>>> *Rajendra Kshirsagar,* Ph. D. I Manager (R&D), Godrej Consumer >>>>>> Products Ltd., I Vikhroli (East), Mumbai I >>>>>> 022/67976797 I drkshirsa...@yahoo.com I >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Usha di >> =========== >> >> > > > > -- Usha di ===========
