Persicaria orientalis from Kashmir

[Gurcharan Singh]

Persicaria orientalis (L.) Spach (syn: Polygonum orientale L.), growing in moist areas, sometimes grown as ornamental. Photographed from Hazuribagh garden in Srinagar on June 16, 2010.

Common names

English: Kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate, Prince's-feather, Princess-feather

Chinese: Hong liao

French: Renouée orientale

Beng: Bara pani mirch

Eaten as pot-herb; used as tonic and vulnerary. Concentrated infusion poisonous to fish. Nuts used for tubercular swellings and flatulence.

 

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Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Retired  Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
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[kiran srivastava]

Hmm! 'Kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate' is intriguing. Somewhere in Kashmir there must be another plant called, 'I'll-kick-your-butt-across-the-field'...if the father was watching from one of the windows.

Cheers,

Kiran Srivastava

Mumbai 

[Gurcharan Singh]

Kiran ji

Not heard about this one but Viola tricolor the common pansy many intriguing names:

http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:p75yE-T2wCoJ:www.plantlives.com/docs/V/Viola_tricolor.pdf+meet-her-in-the-buttery-kiss-her-in-the-pantry&hl=en&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShs6-wKMHYU7Vh9GCBtwfC89lm4vaagfcovfepdc6apj5CJ97EalUVXxaEaBE64VCR-RYWbytGhee8NDR_k3dMCQJC9ukSdtX2ZTLM3oKJcCmRmR8KOwfT03yDq829v_-iWl5BD&sig=AHIEtbQEG2yoioaTj7u0eL-YeGFSflIZ0A

There are many many more. May be some young energetic member can compile such a list.

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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/ 

[tanay bose]

Nice catch these plant are grown over the garden gates over the arches hence I think is the name !!

Tanay

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Tanay Bose
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