Flora of Panipat District- Celosia urgentia

Balkar Arya

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26 Sept 2010, 10:36:48 am26/09/10

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Dear All
Celosia urgentia

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Dr Balkar Singh
Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology
Arya P G College, Panipat
Haryana-132103
09416262964

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Pankaj Kumar

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26 Sept 2010, 10:38:08 am26/09/10

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Celosia argentea.....argentea comes from Argentium for silver.
Pankaj

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Department of Habitat Ecology
Wildlife Institute of India
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Dehradun - 248001, India

Balkar Arya

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26 Sept 2010, 10:42:06 am26/09/10

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But Pankaj ji Mature flowers looks somewhat pink

Pankaj Kumar

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26 Sept 2010, 10:44:30 am26/09/10

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Even it comes in pure pink flowers and many colours. Just because it
was described originally that way from a white inflorescence which had
silvery shine.
Pankaj

Balkar Arya

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26 Sept 2010, 10:46:25 am26/09/10

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Thanks Pankaj Ji for info

Shantanu

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26 Sept 2010, 2:51:01 pm26/09/10

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Lovely flowers of Celosia argentia.....Balkar ji.

and the plain tiger in the second pic makes it even more beautiful

Shantanu : )

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Gurcharan Singh

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27 Sept 2010, 12:25:50 am27/09/10

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As pointed out by Pankaj ji, Celosia argentea

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Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Retired Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
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Balkar Arya

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27 Sept 2010, 8:37:53 am27/09/10

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Thanks Pankaj Ji and Gurcharan for correcting Typo error

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