Apiaceae (Umbelliferae) Week: Daucus carota var. carota from Kashmir

[Gurcharan Singh]

Daucus carota Linn., Sp. Pl. 242. 1753. var. carota

Common names: Wild carrot, Queen Anne's-lace, queen's-lace, salosi 

Vernacular: jangli gajjar

Biennial herb up to 1 m tall; tap root slender, woody, branched, not fleshy, usually brown in colour; stem hispid; leaves 2-3 pinnate with linear to oval deeply toothed segments; inflorescence a compound umbel; involucre bracts usually divided, involucel bracts entire or divided; flowers white; ovary hispid; fruit ovoid, 2-3 mm long, spiny.

Common in Kashmir valley on slopes and wastelands. Photographed from Cheshmashahi forest, Srinagar, Kashmir in June.

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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/

[Balkar Arya]

Sir is the botanical name same for Jangli and Cultivated Gajar?

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Regards

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

[Gurcharan Singh]

Cultivated, var. sativa

Here is the key from eFlora of China

1 Taproot thickened, elongate terete or clavate, fleshy, reddish, reddish-yellow, or yellow (a carrot).   1b var. sativa + Taproot slender, branched, woody, not fleshy, usually brown.   1a var. carota

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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/ 

[Balkar Arya]

Thanks Sir

[Gurcharan Singh]

Dear friends, you are likely to confuse Daucus carota var. carota with Ammi majus in flowers (although leaf segments are slightly broader in Ammi) but not when Daucus starts fruiting, the whole inflorescence shrinks like a ball and the fruits are very spiny and winged, that must be partly responsible for tangling of fruits. Here are fresh photographs of that.

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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/ 

[Gurcharan Singh]

A better focussed  mature fruit

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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/