Romuald Kosina - Dec 17, 2007 2:15 pm - Voted 10/10
Hi!!!Very beautiful plant and picture!!!
Thanks for setting it in my album!!!
:-)))
Romek
Afzal - Dec 17, 2007 2:19 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: Hi!!!Thank you very much for your nice comments to my picture. I will post new photos in your album in few days.
Best regards, Afzal
Afzal - Dec 18, 2007 1:53 am - Hasn't voted
Re: what species?Thanks for your remarks. In our country, the local people of these mountains named it raspberry.
Dmitry Pruss - Dec 17, 2007 5:10 pm - Voted 10/10
It looks like elderberryIs it considered eadible in those parts?
Elderberry picts on SP:
black
red
Afzal - Dec 18, 2007 1:54 am - Hasn't voted
Re: It looks like elderberryThanks for looking at my photo. In our country it knows a raspberry.
Dmitry Pruss - Dec 18, 2007 9:38 am - Voted 10/10
I couldn't find a color illustrationfor the Pakistani native Sambucus whightiana but the botanical description, says,
"Fruit a drupe, globose, 4-5 mm in diameter, orange coloured turning black."
nartreb - Dec 18, 2007 9:50 am - Hasn't voted
Re: I couldn't find a color illustrationI think that's right; I thought it might be an elder but I couldn't find an orange one.
Afzal - Dec 18, 2007 11:47 am - Hasn't voted
Re: I couldn't find a color illustrationThank you very much for your clear description about photo.
Best regards, Afzal
Chris Chadwell - May 1, 2018 8:51 am - Hasn't voted
Always questionable as to accuracy of local names - Latin names accepted internationallyThis is definitely the fruits of Sambucus wightiana - 'Wight's or West Himalayan Elder'. Stewart, one-time Principal of Gordon College, Rawalpindi, author of 'An Annotated Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Pakistan & Kashmir' (which formed the basis for 'Flora of Pakistan', records this from Northern Pakistan @ 1500-3000m; very common in Kashmir where it is gregarious on hill-sides and valley bottoms where snow, often avalanche snow, lies late. The numerous globular fruits are either orange or red, then usually turn black. Used medicinally. Founder & Editor, Himalayan Plant Association. shpa.org.uk
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