Thanks Prashant ji Mainly because the fruit is rounded and flat like a coin.
-- 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 Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Prashant Awale <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting common names. Would love to know the significance of these > common names... > Thanks Gurcharan Singh ji for sharing. > Regards > Prashant > > On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 5:40 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Pl. read Lunaria annua >> >> >> >> -- >> 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 Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> *Lunaria annual* L., Sp. pl. 2:653. 1753 >>> >>> Common names: Honesty plant, annual honesty, money plant, silver dollar, >>> Chinese money, Chinese coins, penny-flower >>> >>> Branched hairy annual or biennial herb with broadly cordate coarsely >>> toothed leaves, lower stalked, upper sessile; flowers violet to pink, on up >>> to 20-flowered racemes, without bracts; petals 2-3 cm long, obovate, >>> strongly veined; fruit nearly orbicular, flattened, up to 4 cm long, >>> slightly less broader; seeds few. >>> >>> Photographed from our house garden in Balgarden, Srinagar Kashmir on May >>> 5, 2012. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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/ >>> >>> >> -- >> >> >> >> > > --
