VoF Week :: DV :: 02 AUG 12 - 1218 :: flowering shrub at Valley of Flowers

Dinesh Valke

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Aug 30, 2012, 1:49:59 PM8/30/12

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2 AUG 12
Valley of Flowers ... about 11000 - 12000 ft

Dear friends, ID please.

Habitat: sloping meadow
Habit: shrub, cannot recollect height; flower about 5 - 7 mm across ... wild guess: member of Polygonaceae ?

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Dinesh

Prashant Awale

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Aug 30, 2012, 2:02:52 PM8/30/12

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Interesting find Dinesh. Good - sharp photographs. Did U use yr new camera?
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Prashant

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Dinesh Valke

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Aug 30, 2012, 2:14:41 PM8/30/12

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Yes, used both cameras.
Close-ups with the new one Lumix G3 - wide with the earlier G1.
Many thanks Prashant.
Regards.
Dinesh

Nidhan Singh

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Aug 31, 2012, 11:32:52 AM8/31/12

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Dinesh Ji....sorry to have doubts.....to me this seems very likely that..the flowers belong to Cuscuta and not the shrub...

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Dr. Nidhan Singh
Department of Botany
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Panipat-132103 Haryana
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Dinesh Valke

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Aug 31, 2012, 12:08:17 PM8/31/12

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Very true Nidhan ji. I am rubbing my eyes now !!
I mistook the flowers to belong to the shrub.
Thank you very much.

Many thanks to Balkar ji for his upload of Cuscuta europaea var. indica Engelm. (synonym of Cuscuta europaea L.)
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/indiantreepix/SzSBwKoG_ZI/4pxkpN8pZtAJ

Regards.
Dinesh

Gurcharan Singh

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Aug 31, 2012, 1:53:31 PM8/31/12

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Thanks Nidhan ji. The flowers were so closely attached to the shrub that I was at complete loss to guess any thing.

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Dr. Gurcharan Singh

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