On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> wrote:
> ... I am also keen to find response(s) for Sharmila ji's query: "I don't
> know what is the right name for the Jyotivanti tree ... ... Maybe someone in
> your group knows about it?"
> OR is Pravin ji's doc discussing the same particular tree found at
> Bhimashankar ? which would imply that the specially named "Jyotivanti" tree
> is in fact a guava tree.
>
> Regards.
>
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 7:51 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, Pravin ji.
>> It's worth reading. There was already lot of discussion earlier on
>> luminicent orchids & other species.
>> May be Dr. Sethi ji can through more light on this Bioluminescence Fungi.
>> Some extracts from the article:
>> .....They informed me that a guava tree and its roots are
>> luminescent......
>> .....The luminous tree roots is the result of fungus "Armillaria species".
>> Especially Armillaria mellea and a closely related relative are common root
>> rot and wood decay fungi found across North America, Asia and Europe.
>> Armillaria grows in and on old stumps, dead trees, buried roots, and downed
>> logs. The fruiting body of Armillaria is a small golden-coloured, stalked
>> mushroom. This root like dark rhizomorphs, when they stop growing or when
>> entering a resting period loose luminosity. ........
>> 2009/9/18 Pravin Kawale <[email protected]>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> Someone had posted a article
>>> on Jyotiwanti earlier.
>>> Attaching the same
>>> Thnaks
>>>
>>> On 9/18/09, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > Pl. find below some inf. in this regard:
>>> > "I don't know what is the right name for the Jyotivanti tree.
>>> > All I read everywhere, is that if you go to bhimashankar sanctuary in
>>> > maharashtra there is a tree on which *bioluminous fungus grows which
>>> > glows
>>> > in the monsoons at night*.
>>> > Maybe someone in your group knows about it?
>>> > Thanks for your help.
>>> > Regards
>>> > Sharmila"
>>> >
>>> > I think this should help in getting Botanical names as well as knowing
>>> > about
>>> > the strange phenonmenon stated above.
>>> > --
>>> > With regards,
>>> > J.M.Garg ([email protected])
>>> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1
>>> > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna'
>>> > Image Resource of thousands of my images of Birds, Butterflies, Flora
>>> > etc.
>>> > (arranged alphabetically & place-wise):
>>> > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg
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>>> > Indiantreepix:
>>> > http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en
>>> >
>>> > >
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Pravin
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> With regards,
>> J.M.Garg ([email protected])
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1
>> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna'
>> Image Resource of thousands of my images of Birds, Butterflies, Flora etc.
>> (arranged alphabetically & place-wise):
>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg
>> For learning about Indian Flora, visit/ join Google e-group-
>> Indiantreepix:http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en
>>
>>
>> >>
>
What ever I read from the internet, bioluminiscence is caused by
certain fungi, on several trees in the forest. It would be interesting
to know whether all these trees belong to different species, or a
single species. In the second case, name of the tree species would be
interesting to be linked with the common name.
--
Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Associate Professor
Department of Botany
SGTB Khalsa College
University of Delhi
Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj
Vikas Puri
New Delhi-110018
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