Saponaria officinalis

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Common soapwort, Bouncing bet;
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Glabrous erect perennial herb up to 1 m tall; leaves ovate lanceolate, 5-10 cm long, strongly 3-nerved, acuminate; flowers white or pinkish, 2.5-4 cm across, in dense terminal corymbs; bracts lanceolate; calyx tubular, 16-20 mm long, green or tinged purple, obscurely veined, lobes ovate; petals with emarginate tip, linear appendages at the base of limb; capsule 1.5 cm long, cylndric-ovoid.
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Caryophyllaceae Week: Saponaria officinalis from Kashmir: Saponaria officinalis L., Sp. Pl. 1: 408. 1753.

syn:: Lychnis officinalis (L.) Scop.
Common names: Common soapwort, bouncing-bet
Glabrous erect perennial herb up to 1 m tall; leaves ovate lanceolate, 5-10 cm long, strongly 3-nerved, acuminate; flowers white or pinkish, 2.5-4 cm across, in dense terminal corymbs; bracts lanceolate; calyx tubular, 16-20 mm long, green or tinged purple, obscurely veined, lobes ovate; petals with emarginate tip, linear appendages at the base of limb; capsule 1.5 cm long, cylndric-ovoid.
Photographed from Kashmir
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Amarnath Yatra : ID Requested (NSJ-02 29/08/2013) : Attachments (3). 4 posts by 3 authors.

ID Requested. A roadside shrub (Around 2 feet high)

Location – Pahalgam, Roadside

Altitude – 6000′ (Approx)

Date – Aug 09, 2013

A Silene species, perhaps S. armeria

Saponaria officinalis, a cultivation escape.


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Saponaria officinalis from Institute of Advance Studies Shimla
Pls Validate

Good photographs …

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Caryophyllaceae ATJULY2016/02 : 9 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (2)

Kindly identify
May be Caryophyllaceae memmber
Shimla
June, 2016

Thanks, … Cultivated or wild ?

Was growing in Shimla Water Catchment Reserve Forest just 100 m below the highway. May be wild or garden escape.

Thank you, …  It matches 100% with Saponaria officinalis.
Can it be wild or garden escape???

Probably an escape …,

I have seen this growing near a helipad (surrounded by many Hotels) in Pelling (Sikkim), and nowhere else…!!

Saponaria officinalis.

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SK1268t 08 JUL 2018 : 4 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (5)- around 600 kb each.
Location:  Kalimpong, WB, India
Date: 10 May 2018
Altitude: 4600 ft.
Habit : Cultivated
I think this comfortably fits into Saponaria officinalis…
Saponaria officinalis L.

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