Thanks for your reply.

Basically Congress means 'The act of coming together or meeting. Or
group,cluster." As Parthenium commonly grows in group or cluster
possibly due to this reason it is named as Congress weed. I am still
not sure.

regards
Pankaj Oudhia


--- In IPRNG@..., "Dr. M. Mahadevappa"
<mahadevrice@y...> wrote:
> Dear Pankaj,
>
> No where a reason is given. Whte flowers look lite cap.2, Its
spread was as rampant as ones congress party was in India. Theses are
possibl reasons.
> Mahadevappa
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> Pankaj Oudhia <pankajoudhia@i...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I received query from Prof.Zimdahl (Original message is given
below)
> on this aspect. Please share your views regarding name of
Parthenium
> as Congress weed.
>
> regards
> Pankaj Oudhia
>
>
> Received: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:25:07 AM MDT
> From: "Dr. Zimdahl" <RZimdahl@a...>
> To: pankaj.oudhia@u...
> Subject: question
>
> Mr. Oudhia,
> I am the author of Fundamentals of Weed Science (a weed science
> textbook) and am now preparing the third edition. I met an Indian
> student who attends Colorado State University a short time ago and
he
> located the IPRHG website for me. My question is why is Parthenium
> hysterophorus called Congress weed in India? I am insterested in
the
> origin of the common name.
> Thank you for your assistance.
> R. L. Zimdahl, Professor
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