Beautiful shot Garg Ji On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 5:38 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear members, > This plant posted in March, 2010, was initially identified as *Commelina > cyanea* after a lot of discussions. Later on it was thought that it may > be *C. dianthifolia *Deille or *C. salicifolia* Roxb. recently > > I finally visited the place (Joka, Kolkata) with Mayur Nandikar ji on > 12.1.13. The species finally seems to be *Commelina* *diffusa* > Burm.f.<https://sites.google.com/tpl/record/kew-233842>after we saw hundreds > of such plants in a large area. The whole plant has > prostrate habit, while the flowering branches appears to be erect. > > The full discussion can be seen at > > https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!topicsearchin/indiantreepix/Commelina$20AND$20diffusa$20AND$20Burm.f./indiantreepix/RaAjZgNORCA > > *All this confusion has happened because I didn't take multiple pictures > from multiple angles of different plants & particularly missed the full > habit picture. This was a great lesson to me as it resulted in lot of > confusion & wastage of energies of lot of our experts. Had I taken > photographs as per posted guidelines, possibly all this could have been > avoided. > *-- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species*& > eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged > alphabetically & place-wise): > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use > them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: > http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 2030 members & > 1,42,000 messages on 31/12/12) or Efloraofindia website: > https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database > of more than 7500 species). > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > > -- > > > > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology & Horticulture Incharge Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964 --
