Gurcharanji: how kind of you, and I just loved it... helped me understand this area a little more...
and your pictures facilitated my armchair travel once more. What was your thesis about ( some flora of Dachigam) ? is it published in its entirety or were you able to get a few papers out of it? Thanks Usha di ======== On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com>wrote: > Ushadi > This is rather the one end of a mountain chain, the dip (Aita Gaj Gap) > separating this from adjacent Shalimar range has the palace of Maharaja > Hari Singh (father of Dr. Karan Singh). Shalimar range with Zabarwan peak > and Twin peaks below which we have famous Moghul Gardens Cheshma Shahi, > Nishat Garden and Shalimar Garden. On the other side it passes into > Dachhigam sanctuary (the place of my Ph.D. work) underlying the famous > Mahadev peak (4338 m). I am enclosing somemore photographs. > > -- > 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 10:40 AM, ushadi Micromini < > microminipho...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 >> =========== >> >> > > > > -- Usha di ===========
