help identify please

nitesh

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May 19, 2011, 10:20:27 AM5/19/11

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this is form NEORA valley next to kalimpong.

please help identify. thanks

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Vijayasankar

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May 19, 2011, 10:33:04 AM5/19/11

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Looks like the "Purple Foxglove" (Digitalis purpurea of Plantaginaceae family).
Caution: This is a poisonous plant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitalis_purpurea

Regards

Vijayasankar Raman
National Center for Natural Products Research
University of Mississippi

Na Bha

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May 19, 2011, 10:59:15 AM5/19/11

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Fingerhut (german for thistle because of its form) Digitalis purpurea

will send fotos from my garden when they start flowering.

Nalini.

nitesh joshi

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May 19, 2011, 10:57:59 AM5/19/11

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thanks a lot frends

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Dr Pankaj Kumar

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May 19, 2011, 2:15:54 PM5/19/11

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I am here too. Thanks for sharing.
Just wanted to add:
Recently I came to know that this plant Digitalis purpurea has been
shifted from Scrophulariaceae to Plantaginaceae.
Regards
Pankaj

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