Apiaceae (Umbelliferae) Week: Trachyspermum ammi from Delhi

[Gurcharan Singh]

Trachyspermum ammi (L.) Sprague in Kew Bull. 228. 1929.

syn: Trachyspermum copticum (L.) Link; Carum copticum (L.) C.B. Clarke

Common names: Ajwain, Ajowan, Bishop's weed

Annual herb with leaves with linear segments; Rays 8-16, involcre bracts pinnate; involucel linear or pinnate; fruit 2 mm long, ovoid, ridges not prominent.

Photographed from Delhi.

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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]

Atleast this plant is known to me 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]

AAAH, love this...
along with fennel, Sowa a little sugar and alcohol for preservation
this ajwain... is in Gripe water...Generic kind...
raise your hand if you have not tasted gripe water..I am counting....

Usha di


On Aug 6, 7:42 pm, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *Trachyspermum ammi* (L.) Sprague in Kew Bull. 228. 1929.
> syn: *Trachyspermum* *copticum* (L.) Link; *Carum* *copticum* (L.) C.B.

> Clarke
>
> Common names: Ajwain, Ajowan, Bishop's weed
>
> Annual herb with leaves with linear segments; Rays 8-16, involcre bracts
> pinnate; involucel linear or pinnate; fruit 2 mm long, ovoid, ridges not
> prominent.
>
> Photographed from Delhi.
>
> --
> 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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