27102011GS1 and cultivated herb from Herbal Garden Kashmir for ID

[Gurcharan Singh]

Photographed from Herbal Garden, below Cheshmashahi, Kashmir. Cultivated herb with narrow linear leaves and orange red flowers about 5 cm long on branched spicate panicles on scape. Perhaps some member of Iridaceae.

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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
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[Dr Pankaj Kumar]

Could this be Freshia sp.?
Pankaj

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[Gurcharan Singh]

Pankaj ji

I think you meant Freezia. Thanks for the lead

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Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
Phone: 011-25518297  Mob: 9810359089
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ 

[Pankaj Kumar]

Oh sorry. I meant Freesia.
Pankaj

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[Gurcharan Singh]

What  a nice series my nil to your Freshia to mine Freezia to your finally corrected Freesia

Thanks a lot

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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://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ 

[Pankaj Kumar]

:P...... but the plant still remains unidentified !!!

[Gurcharan Singh]

Yes, Pankaj ji, I am it, and would be lucky if some one identifies in between

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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://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ 

[Ritesh]

Is it not Crocosmia?

Regards,
Ritesh.

[Gurcharan Singh]

Ritesh ji

You may be right. I have lot of Freesia seen but the genus never came to my mind when photographing it. Freesia seemed closer when Pankaj ji suggested it.

Let us explore further

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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://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ 

[Gurcharan Singh]

I think Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora (Lemoine) N. E. Br.

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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://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ 

[Ritesh Kumar Choudhary]

Yes sir,

looks same to me.

Regards,
Ritesh.

[Ganesh M. Pradhan]

Definitely Crocosmia but difficult to say which hybrd.
Interesting link here:http://www.thecrocosmiagardens.net/

Ganesh M. Pradhan

On Oct 27, 9:39 pm, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora (Lemoine) N. E. Br.
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> 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: 9810359089http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/

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> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ritesh ji
> > You may be right. I have lot of Freesia seen but the genus never came to my
> > mind when photographing it. Freesia seemed closer when Pankaj ji suggested
> > it.
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> > Let us explore further
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> > --
> > 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://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/
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[Gurcharan Singh]

Thanks Ganesh ji for this link

This is the simple key I could build based on Hortus Third, Manual of Cultivated Plants this website and other sources. You may refine it if you like:

Key to the commonly cultivated species of Crocosmia

1a. Perianth tube twice or more as long as lobes..........................................................................(2)

1b. Perianth tube shorter or equalling  lobes.................................................................................(4)

2a. Inflorescence many-flowered, unbranched, one-sided...............................................................C. masoniorum

2b. Inflorescence few-many flowered, branched.............................................................................(3)

3a. Inflorescence forking, 15-25 cm long; perianth bright orange-yellow, tinged ed..........................C. pottsii

3b. Inflorescence much-branched, with often brush-like clusters of flowers.....................................C. paniculata

4a. Flowers orange yellow...........................................................................................................C. aurea

4b. Flowers crimson to orange-crimson........................................................................................C. crocosmiiflora

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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://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ 

 
lobes

[Gurcharan Singh]

My key confirms  Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora (Lemoine) N. E. Br.