When I was looking at the enlarged photos, my wife passed by. Her remarks were: Bada pyara phool hai. gulab hai? Picure no. 4 shows the leaves. I dont think jasmine has ever got serrated leaves. In India only one variety of rose is considered edible. that is called chaitia (as it flowers in March April). Pink and highly fragrant, used for making rosewater and gulkand. I remember when Gulkand was made at our place in good old days, the pollen used to be carefully removed. Pluck the petals, sift them and remove the pollens. The correct ID of the flower you have can only be given by experts. Let us wait for them. Best wishes, ak
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 5:31 PM, nabha meghani <nabha-megh...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hallo, > > These fotos were taken on 24. june 2010. Now the temperature is going up > rapidly and today the shrub is withered. > Looking at the fotos I rememberd that in my childhood my mother used to > keep the drinking water in an earthen pot called* Math *in marathi. > Refrigerators were not so common in a household in those days. The *math*kept > the water cool. My mother also used to put some mogra (or jai or > chameli?) flowers in the water. > I have now some questions. > What Jasmin I have in the foto? The shrub war there all the time, so I > don't know exactly what it is. It has pleasent fragrance like mogra. > Is it ok to put these flowers in the drinking water? If ok, then can one > eat the flowers e.g. as decoration in the salad too? > Are Jasmin / Mogra flowers in general edible? *"drinkable?"* > TIA > Nalini > > > Date/Time : > > 24.june 2010 > > Location- Place, altitude and GPS: > > Nalinis garden in Ritterhude near Bremen, Germany > > Habitat- garden/ urban/wild/type: > > Garden > > Plant Habit-tree/shrub/climber/herb: > > Shrub > > Height/length: > > 3 Meters > > Leaves-type/shape/size > > Inflorescence type /size: > > > > Flowers-size/colour/calyx/bracts: > > white > > Fruits type-shape/size/seeds: > > - > > Fragrance/odour/pollinator/uses and so on: > > fragrant, similar to mogra > > -- Anand Kumar Bhatt A-59, B.S.F.Colony, Airport Road Gwalior. 474 005. Tele: 0751-247 2233. Mobile 0 94253 09780. My blogsite is at: http://anandkbhatt.blogspot.com (A new blogs has been added on 30 May 10.) And the photo site: www.flickr.com/photos/akbhatt/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ten most common surnames of Indians: Singh, Kumar, Sharma, Patel, Shah, Lal, Gupta, Bhat, Rao, Reddy. Cheers!
