Physalis for ID : 030811 : AK-2

[Aarti S. Khale]

Taken at Kodaikanal on 25/10/08.
Found growing wild.
A small plant.
Aarti

[Vijayasankar]

Looks like Nicandra physaloides, a native of Peru.

 

Regards 

 

Vijayasankar Raman
National Center for Natural Products Research
University of Mississippi

[Gurcharan Singh]

Yes colour of corolla and strongly winged calyx support Nicandra physalodes.

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[Aarti S. Khale]

Vijayasankar ji, Gurcharan ji

Many thanks for the id.

I have photographed a flower of this, but did not know both to be the same sp.

Regards,

Aarti

[Smilax004]

A new species to me. Is this species introduced recently to India?

Regards,
Giby

On Aug 3, 7:43 pm, Vijayasankar <vijay.botan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Looks like *Nicandra physaloides*, a native of Peru.

>
> Regards
>
> Vijayasankar Raman
> National Center for Natural Products Research
> University of Mississippi
>

[Gurcharan Singh]

Giby ji

This American plant is also widely cultivated and readily naturalizes. It features in Revised Handbook of Flora of Ceylone as also in enumeration of Flowering Plants of Nepal.

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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/ 

[Giby Kuriakose]

Thank you sir for clarification. I am not very familiar with introduced plants and this is a good platform for my learning of such plants

Thanks and Regards,

Giby

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