beautiful wild flower ID from Hooghly 22-04-12 SK-1

[surajit koley]

Sir,

Found this wild woody undershrub (?) with prickle, bearing beautiful flowers.

Species : UNKNOWN

Habit & Habitat : wild, prostrate shrub with prickle, roadside

Date : 26-03-12, 9.50 a.m.

Place : Gobra (Hooghly), WB

Thank you & Regards,

Surajit Koley

[Gurcharan Singh]

I hope capparis sepiaria

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[Dinesh Valke]

... also please consider chances of Capparis zeylanica (family: Capparaceae OR Capparidaceae)
Regards.
Dinesh

[Gurcharan Singh]

Dinesh ji
Thanks a lot. You prevented me from labelling my plant from Nainital wrongly.
Thanks again.

C. zeylanica: Flowers supra axillary 1-3; plants pubescent with
Scarlet-brown branched hairs
C. sepiaria: Flowers in terminal clusters of 10-20; plant more or less
pube¬scent with ashy grey simple hairs.

--
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/

[surajit koley]

Dear Gurcharan Sir & Dinesh Sir,

 

Thank you very much for the ID of this beautyful plant. After obtaining the ID from you i was going through my copy of "Plant Groups" and found that the Bengali name given to this one is ASHAREYLATA. But, i think, it is not that common as have been claimed in the said book.

 

You have everything, Dinesh Sir, in your chest : http://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/2464327408/ !!!

 

Thank you very much Gurcharan Sir for the keys to identify C. sepiaria from the C. zeylanica.

 

And God, rather i myself saved me from labelling it a Myrtaceae member!!!

 

Regards,

 

Surajit Koley

 

 

[ushadi Micromini]

Dear Gurcharan ji, Dinish, and Surajit:  enjoyed this ...

I can see the hair in figures 1 and 2 but the further characterization??/
I am a bit confused...
how do I  see the Scarlet-brown branched hairs  in C. zeylanica: Flowers supra axillary 1-3; plants pubescent...

PLEASE HELP...

Thanks Usha di
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Usha di
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[surajit koley]

Good morning Madam

I will try to revisit the plant. But the hair in 1st and 2nd images seems to be of another creeper.

Regards,

surajit

[Gurcharan Singh]

Ushadi
I will upload mine to clarify both features.

--
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/

[Satish Phadke]

Capparis zeylanica indeed.
The stamens of fresh flowers in the morning are white
(First picture taken at 9:30 am)....
turning to red brown in the evening. So yestaerday's withered flowers will be red brown.

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Dr Satish Phadke

[surajit koley]

That's an incredible information on incredible phenomenon of a beautiful flower. I also noticed this colour variation of the flowers on this plant but didn't know why.

Thank you very much Sir

Regards,

surajit

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Satish Phadke <drsmp...@gmail.com> wrote:

Capparis zeylanica indeed.
The stamens of fresh flowers in the morning are white
(First picture taken at 9:30 am)....
turning to red brown in the evening. So yestaerday's withered flowers will be red brown.

--
Dr Satish Phadke

[surajit koley]

Usha Di,

I am very sorry that i fail to show you the features you have asked me to. I visited the plant once again on 28-04-2012, but there was no flower this time. Attaching two images of this plant recorded on that day. Hope i didn't fail to identify the plant without its flower.

Regards,

surajit

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 4:49 AM, ushadi Micromini <micromi...@gmail.com> wrote: