Fwd: WILD FLOWER ID

[J.M. Garg]

Forwarding for Id assistance please.

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From: vikram jit singh <vikramji...@gmail.com>
Date: 22 February 2011 11:35
Subject: WILD FLOWER ID
To: "J.M. Garg" <jmg...@gmail.com>

Dear Mr Garg,

I wanted to seek ur expertise on the identity of a wild purple flower which grows in clumps in the lower Shiwalik foothills. It is very common and gives of a exotic odour. I am attaching a pix. Could u tell me the name and something about this flower.

Regards,

Vikram.

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[Gurcharan Singh]

It is  a distant shot but it looks like Ageratum conyzoides of family Asteraceae

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[Pankaj Kumar]

Looks like Ageratum to me.
Pankaj

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 5:34 PM, J.M. Garg <jmg...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Neil Soares]

Hi,  Agree with Dr. Pankaj. This is an invasive weed - the Mexican Floss Flower [Ageratum houstonianum] a native of Peru & Mexico.                   With regards,                     Neil Soares. --- On Tue, 2/22/11, Pankaj Kumar <sahani...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Gurcharan Singh]

Yes A. houstonianum is a better choice. I was under the impression that this is commonly a cultivated species, never thought it could become an invasive weed.

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[Dr Pankaj Kumar]

Yes Vikram sir,
this is EXOTIC, meaning not a native plant and INVASIVE, which
basically means, it has the ability to suppress the indigenous
vegetation of an area and multiply itself and a WEED, which basically
means, it is an unwanted plant.
Regards
Pankaj

On Feb 22, 7:32 pm, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes A. houstonianum is a better choice. I was under the impression that this
> is commonly a cultivated species, never thought it could become an invasive
> weed.
>
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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: 9810359089http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/

>
>
>
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> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Neil Soares <drneilsoa...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  Agree with Dr. Pankaj. This is an invasive weed - the Mexican Floss Flower
> > [Ageratum houstonianum] a native of Peru & Mexico.
> >                   With regards,
> >                     Neil Soares.
>

> > --- On *Tue, 2/22/11, Pankaj Kumar <sahanipan...@gmail.com>* wrote:

>
> > From: Pankaj Kumar <sahanipan...@gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:63359] Fwd: WILD FLOWER ID
>

> > To: "J.M. Garg" <jmga...@gmail.com>

> > Cc: "efloraofindia" <indian...@googlegroups.com>, "vikram jit singh" <

> > vikramjitsing...@gmail.com>

> > Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2011, 5:56 PM
>
> > Looks like Ageratum to me.
> > Pankaj
>

> > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 5:34 PM, J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com<http://us.mc339.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=jmga...@gmail.com>>

> > wrote:
> > > Forwarding for Id assistance please.
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> > > Date: 22 February 2011 11:35
> > > Subject: WILD FLOWER ID

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> > > J.M.Garg (jmga...@gmail.com<http://us.mc339.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=jmga...@gmail.com>
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> > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1
> > > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna'
> > > The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a thousand species &
> > > eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged
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> > > for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image.
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[vikram jit singh]

Thanks for the advice.

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