Malvaceae Week: Tilia platyphyllos from Kashmir

[Gurcharan Singh]

Tilia platyphyllos Scop.,  Fl. Carniol. ed. 2, 1: 373 1771.

Common names: big-leaf linden, broadleaf lime, large-leaf lime, large-leaf linden 

Tree with pubescent young branches; leaves broadly ovate, up to 12 cm long, obliquely cordate, regularly serrate, pubescent beneath especially along veins; flowers creamish in drooping cymes, usually 3, rarely 4-6 flowered, peduncle united for half its length to the ligulate bract; sepals and petals five each; stamens many; fruit pear-shaped.

Photographed from Emporium Garden in Srinagar, Kashmir.  

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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]

Another feather in cap of malvaceae Cap. thanks sir

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Regards

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

[Ushadi micromini]

very nice to see asian lindens...

which by the way are supposed to be more varieties than northwestern
hemisphers...

wonder how many do we have in the himalayas...

Usha di
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On Sep 11, 7:04 am, Balkar Arya <balkara...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Another feather in cap of malvaceae Cap. thanks sir
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>
>

> On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > *Tilia platyphyllos* Scop.,  Fl. Carniol. ed. 2, 1: 373 1771.
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> > Common names: *big-leaf linden*, *broadleaf lime*, *large-leaf lime*, *large-leaf
> > linden*

[Gurcharan Singh]

A European plant Ushadi

I have seen a single cultivated tree in Kashmir (seeing it since 1970) grown in Kashmir Arts Emporium Garden in Srinagar, which interestingly has several interesting plants grown since a long time.

-- 
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/ 

[Madhuri Pejaver]

flowers/ fruits give the appearence of fig Madhuri --- On Sun, 11/9/11, Gurcharan Singh <sing...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Gurcharan Singh]

They remind more of a fossil group Glossopteridae which was common in Jurassic along with Dinosaurs and perished at the same time, having its inflorescence attached to the petiole of leaf, a structure known as gonophyll, which at least one author (Melville) thought gave rise to angiosperms. The fossils of this group are met in all present day splits of original Gondwana land of which India was once a part.

-- 
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/ 

[formp...@yahoo.com]

Ok. Not much familiar with examples from Botany in evolution.
Thanks.
Madhuri

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