Rubus macilentus

Rubus macilentus Jacquem. ex Cambess., Voyage dans l’Inde; 1835 49, t.60 1844. (Syn: Rubus asper Royle ex Hook. fil.; Rubus minensis Pax & K.Hoffm.; Rubus trichopetalus Hand.-Mazz.; Rubus uncatus Wall.); China (Sichuan, Yunnan), Tibet, Bhutan, N-India, Jammu & Kashmir (Poonch, Kashmir), Pakistan (Swat, Hazara, Murree), Nepal, Sikkim, Laos as per Catalogue of Life;   Rosaceae […]

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Spiraea vaccinifolia

Spiraea vaccinifolia D.Don, Prodromus florae nepalensis; 1825 227 1825. (syn: Spiraea adiantifolia Hort. ex W. H. Baxter; Spiraea laxiflora Lindl.; Spiraea rhamnifolia Wall.; Spiraea vacciniifolia Lindl. [Spelling variant]; Spiraea venustula Kunth & Bouch‚); Pakistan (Swat, Hazara, Murree), Jammu & Kashmir (Poonch, Kashmir), NW-India, Nepal as per Catalogue of Life (Spiraea vacciniifolia D. Don); Common name: Blueberry-Leaved […]

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Lloydia himalensis

Lloydia himalensis Royle, Ill. Bot. Himal. Mts. 388, t. 93, f. 2 1839.; Himalaya (as per WCSP); Images by Saroj Kumar Kasaju (Id help by D S Rawat & Surajit Koley) (Inserted by J.M.Garg) (For more images & complete details, click on the links)    Liliaceae : Lloydia longiscapa Hook. ??? : 4 posts by 4 […]

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Prunus mira

Prunus mira Koehne, Plantae wilsonianae Plantae wilsonianae; 1911 272 1912. (syn: Amygdalus mira (Koehne) T.T.Yu & L.T.Lu; Amygdalus mira (Koehne) Ricker; Persica mira (Koehne) Kovalev & Kostina); China (Sichuan, Yunnan), Tibet, Nepal as per Catalogue of Life;   Rosaceae Fortnight- Prunus mira from Himachal-GSG09/Sept 2015 : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (1) Prunus mira, […]

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Pyrus species- California, USA

  Flowering tree for ID – RK -3: Request ID of this beautiful Tree. Photos taken from March to April 2011 Location – Los Altos – California Habitat – Garden I thunk Pyrus sp. I think yes

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Malus ‘Harry Potter’

Rosaceae Week: Malus ‘Mary Potter’ from SFO, California: Malus ‘Harry Potter’ Common name: Harry Potter Crabapple A low-growing crabapple, broad-spreading, densely-branched, deciduous tree up to 4 m tall and 6 m broad; ovales ovate, sometimes lobed, dark green; buds reddish-pink buds open to form fragrant white flowers 2.5 cm across; fruits 1.2 cm, red maturing in […]

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Orophea sivarajanii

Orophea sivarajanii Sasidh., Nordic J. Bot. 19: 301 1999. ; Shrubs, 2-3 m tall, young shoots glabrous. Lamina oblong or elliptic-oblong, acuminate at apex, obtuse or rounded at base, glabrous, 7-15 x 3-6 cm, lateral nerves 7-11 pairs, prominent below and faint above, intercostae widely reticulate, prominulous below and inconspicuous above; petiole 2-3 mm long, […]

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Orophea malabarica

Orophea malabarica Sasidh. & Sivar.,  Blumea 35: 269 1990. ; Navendu ji & his team- Two rare tree species discovered : 8 posts by 8 authors. Orophea malabarica and Orophea sivarajanii, which are related to the custard apple family, were discovered in Makutta Ghat of Kodagu district. Pl. see Hindu article Congrats, Navendu ji & […]

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Agrimonia eupatoria (Poland)

Agrimonia eupatoria L., Species plantarum, edition 1 Species plantarum, edition 1; 1753 448 1753. (syn: Agrimonia adhaerens Gilib.; Agrimonia adscendens Andrz.; Agrimonia alba hort. ex Gizycki; Agrimonia bracteosa E.Mey.; Agrimonia canescens Dumort.; Agrimonia elata Salisb.; Agrimonia eupatoria subsp. eupatoria ; Agrimonia eupatoria var. fallax Fiek; Agrimonia eupatoria var. humilis (Wallr.) Asch. & Graebn.; Agrimonia eupatoria […]

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Cleidion nitidum

Cleidion nitidum (Müll.Arg.) Thwaites ex Kurz, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 42(2): 245 1873. (Syn: Mallotus nitidus Müll.Arg.); image by Dr. Tapas Chakraborty     S. India, Sri Lanka, Andaman Is. (as per WCSP);    Cleidion nitidum (Euphorbiaceae) from the Andamans : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1) Shrubs; scattered in edges […]

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Elaeocarpus species- Kalyan, Maharastra

      Fwd: [efloraofindia:230871] Id pls BG1 070915 : 3 posts by 3 authors. Can it is Rudraksha plant ?Id plsLocation :- kalyan, Maharashtra.28.8.15 Looks like Elaeocarpus sphaericus (Rudraksha tree) but there are numerous species in this genus which are similar and difficult to separate in vegetatice state. Possibly so, thanks a lot for […]

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Chrysosplenium tenellum

Chrysosplenium tenellum Hook.f. & Thomson, J. Proc. Linn. Soc., Bot. 2: 73 1858.;   W. Himalaya to W. Nepal as per POWO; N-India (Punjab) to Nepal, Bhutan as per Catalogue of life; Common name: Tender Golden Saxifrage      Chrysosplenium tenellum fom Uttarakhand_Sep.2015_DSR_11 : 2 posts by 2 authors. Chryspsplenium tenellum Hook.f. & Thomson is […]

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Hericium erinaceus

Hericium erinaceus (Bull.) Pers., 1797 (syn: Clavaria conferta Paulet, 1793; Clavaria erinaceus (Bull.) Paulet, 1793; Dryodon caput-medusae (Bull.) Quél., 1886; Dryodon erinaceus (Bull.) P. Karst., 1882; Dryodon juranus Quél., 1902; Hericium caput-medusae (Bull.) Pers., 1797; Hericium echinus (Scop.) Pers., 1797; Hericium erinaceus f. caput-medusae (Bull.) Nikol., 1950; Hericium erinaceus subsp. erinaceo-abietis Burds., O. K. Mill. & […]

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Eriobotrya deflexa (Cultivated- USA)

Eriobotrya deflexa (Hemsl.) Nakai, Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 30:18. 1916 (syn: Eriobotrya buisanensis (Hayata) Makino & Nemoto; Eriobotrya deflexa var. buisanensis (Hayata) Hayata; Eriobotrya deflexa f. buisanensis (Hayata) Nakai; Eriobotrya deflexa f. deflexa ; Eriobotrya deflexa f. koshunensis (Kaneh. & Sasaki) H.L.Li; Eriobotrya deflexa var. koshunensis Kaneh. & Sasaki; Photinia buisanensis Hayata; Photinia deflexa Hemsl.); China […]

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Pyracantha koidzumii (Cultivated- USA)

Pyracantha koidzumii (Hayata) Rehder, J. Arnold Arbor. 1:261. 1920 (syn: Cotoneaster formosanus Hayata; Cotoneaster koidzumii Hayata; Cotoneaster taitoensis Hayata; Pyracantha formosana Kaneh.; Pyracantha koidzumii var. taitoensis (Hayata) Masam.);   An interesting species differing from others in entire leaf margins, obtuse to emarginate leaf apex; shrub with leaves clustered at tips of short branches, oblong-obovate, 3-5 […]

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Rosa hybrids- Nasik

  Rosaceae Fortnight : Red Roses : Nasik : 07SEP15 : AK-11 : 11/13 : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (1) Bright Red cultivated Roses seen at Sula Vineyards in Nasik.

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