Parrotiopsis jacquemontiana from Kashmir

[Gurcharan Singh]

Parrotiopsis jacquemontiana (Dcne.) Rehder

Syn: Parrotia jacquemontiana Dcne.

Local name: Hatab

A deciduous shrub with suborbicular crenate-serrate leaves; flowers small, forming a head surrounded by white showy bracts, whole infl. looking like a flower about 5-7 cm across; calyx gamosepalous, campanulate, persistent, adhering to ovary; corolla absent; stamens 15, erect with 3-4 mm long filaments; ovary woolly, bilocular with two styles; fruit capsule, clustered.

Locally common on lower hills in Kashmir. Photographed from Dachhigam and below Jawahar Tunnel in Kashmir

Very important fuelwood and for making walking sticks, 

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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.
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[Prashant Awale]

Nice upload and information. Thanks Gurcharan Singh ji for sharing. Looking at the leaves I think i had also seen this plant at Dachhigam.  
Regards
Prashant

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[ushadi Micromini]

Very nice

But I am not sure what I am  looking at in the first picture... what is the green stuff and then the grey-beige roundish strictures?

and in the third picture I think I see one round red and one partly visible red ??? berry?/
is that what it is?


Do these branches grow stouter for the walking sticks?/

thanks, Gurcharanji
usha di

On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Gurcharan Singh <sing...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Gurcharan Singh]

Ushadi

When I reached Kashmir this year in early May, Flowering has already finished so what you can see are enlarged calyx surrounding developing fruit with some stamens still sticking around in the first photograph. The second and third photographs are from a higher elevation when entering the valley, where some flowering was still there. What you see as red structure if leaf gall and not berry. It is on the leaf. The flowers (rather inflorescence you can see at the tips of braches with white-creamish bracts.

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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://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ 
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ 

[ushadi Micromini]

Thank you Sir
I thought the could be berries in the process of falling... and getting stuck..??
but I have never seen red galls...
I have seen brown, yellow, orangishbrown and beige...
this is first red gall on leaf...
thanks
Usha di
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[Nidhan Singh]

Something special and new to me , thanks sir for posting.....

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Regards,

Dr. Nidhan Singh

Assisstant Professor
Department of Botany
I.B. (PG) College
Panipat-132103 Haryana
Ph.: 09416371227