brilliant colors... more intense than any fall season /winter season asters I have seen Usha di ========
On Jan 16, 8:10 pm, Satish Phadke <drsmpha...@gmail.com> wrote: > *Cyathocline purpurea * > Fort Sinhagad > Family : Asteraceae > Suberect herb, viscid and glandular, silky and hairy. > Stem branched grooved. > Basal leaves radical and cauline, sessile. Segments toothed. > Flower heads 0.3 to 0.6 cm across in terminal corymbose panicles; > involucral bracts linear, acute, hairy on margins. > Achenes oblong. Whole plant is aromatic and is commonly observed as > undergrowth in open spaces especially near wet surface; rice fields or on > the banks of river streams. > -- > Dr Satish Phadke > > _MG_5897s.jpg > 126KViewDownload > > _MG_5898s.jpg > 139KViewDownload