Dear Arundhati and Nayan: this is not spider plant
something else... I am not a botanist nor a taxonomist, but I am very confident that this is not the plant known in the west, in home gardens and home gardening centers as the SPIDER PLANT .... I know simply because I have grown several hundred of them and was able to get the babies plants, the flowers and even seeds that germinated, and the plant throws side shoots and develops further clones of itself, , right next to the mother plant itself ... The leaf blade is much skinnier than shown, rather delicate than shown, and flowers smaller almost as wide as tall and white with bright yellow pollens, quite different from these pics... and the inflorescence is a bunched up group at the end of the spike thrown out by the mother, and that 's where the babies also develop... hope someone knows what this is.. Usha di *PS I wrote this last nite and for some reason draft was saved and did not go thru... * just now I saw a response from Dr. Santhosh Kumar... so may be my gardner's instinct was right... and we can study the real differences, thanks Dr Santhosh. === On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Dr Santhosh Kumar < [email protected]> wrote: > This is Dianella tasmanica, a garden plant. Not Chlorophytum comosum. > > Dr Santhosh > > On 26 January 2013 09:02, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Forwarding again for Id assistance please. >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Arundhati Boyce <[email protected]> >> Date: 20 January 2013 11:29 >> Subject: [efloraofindia:144316] Ornamental for id - 200113 ANB-0029 - >> Mumbai >> To: efloraindia <[email protected]> >> >> >> Hello, >> >> This ornamental plant has very attractive foliage and small yellow >> flowers. I'd like to know its name if possible. >> >> -- >> Best regards, Arundhati >> >> -- >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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'. >> >> -- >> >> >> >> > > > > -- > SANTHOSH > ------------------------------------------ > Dr. E.S. Santhosh Kumar MSc, PhD, FIAT, FLS > Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute, Palode > Thiruvananthapuram-695562 > Kerala > India > www.drsanthosh.wetpaint.com > -- Usha di =========== -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
