Please identify this herb 1 - NS7

[Neil Soares]

Hi,  Photographed at my farm at Shahapur on Sunday. Please identify this herb. It stood about 4-5 feet high.                    Thanks,                              With regards,                                Neil Soares.

[Dinesh Valke]

... herb with a bushy nature ... rambles and forms thickets ... can reach to great heights (the base then becomes woody)  ... native of tropical America ... Chromolaena odorata (syn. Eupatorium odoratum) ... the common floss flower, commonly known as: Siam weed, triffid weed • Hindi: बाग़ धोका bagh dhoka, तीव्र गंधा tivra gandha

Regards.

[Neil Soares]

Thanks Dinesh for both the ids. Had my doubts. Will obviously have to ger rid of this one pronto !                     Regards,                      Neil. --- On Tue, 11/30/10, Dinesh Valke <dinesh...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Yazdy Palia]

Dear Mr. Neil,
You are right, you will have to get rid of it in a pronto.
My pictures of the same.

[Yazdy Palia]

please discard the black seed, it is different.
Regards
Yazdy.

[Pankaj Kumar]

Dinesh sir,

tivra gandha, does it smell so strong, i never felt that way??

Pankaj

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Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae)
Research Associate
Greater Kailash Sacred Landscape Project
Department of Habitat Ecology
Wildlife Institute of India
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Dehradun - 248001, India

[Dinesh Valke]

Dear Pankaj, .... the plant smells when leaves are crushed.

Google "Chromolaena odorata smell"
... crushed leaves emit pungent odour
... also known as parrafienbos, for the smell. It smells like Parrafin
... Leaves ovate to triangular, 3-veined from the base, gland-dotted below, smelling strongly of turpentine or paraffin when crushed.


Regards.