Help to ID this four plants please: A) Red flowered shrub growing in the gardens in The Taj Mahal. B) This plant grew alongside roads, and scattered on uncultivated fields in many places and I noticed goats etc left it ungrazed. I did see ladies cutting it down, carefully, and carrying it away - for reasons I did not understand. It may have a white flower. C) Only saw this shrub once, high up outside a café on a mountain road, the 'balls' are possibly a seed pod covering? Whole plant was very sticky and tiny orange coloured spiders were everywhere on it. D) Saw the green shrub, about 18 inches tall only once in an old graveyard in Shimla, which is high up. Grew by a path so perhaps a seed had been dropped there? The odd thing about it was that nasty spikes grew out, vertically, from the leaves (not the stems). Agapanthus in the background. A B C D
1. Looks like Calliandra haematocephala. Calliandra haematocephala - Google Search 2. Looks like Calotropis gigantea. calotropis gigantea - Google Search 3. Looks like Gomphocarpus physocarpus. gomphocarpus physocarpus - Google Search 4. Believe it is Solanum sp. One with thorns on the leaves. solanum thorny leaf - Google Search
Thank you for your help. I have looked up the plants you specify and they tie up with the location I saw them in and their attributes i.e. some are poisonous etc, I remembered where they were growing etc The last one is, I think, Solanum myriacanthum.
