Thank you very much Tabish Ji, for this latest update. Regards, surajit
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Tabish <[email protected]> wrote: > I had mail exchange with *Dr. James Cobb* who runs the meconopsisworld > website. Here are his words: > > "Dear Tabish, Christopher Grey-Wilson is writing a new monograph on > Meconopsis due to be published next year. I have to say I am not too happy > with some of his ideas. There is a Japanese photographer /explorer called > Toshio Yoshida who suddenly is also an expert! They have split the group of > plants that used to be M. horridula up into at least 9 new species. They do > not seem to understand that this group of plants shows huge variation over > its range in China and the Himalayas. The very high altitude plants do not > have a flowering raceme but are scapose. All the rest have a flowering > raceme and as far as I am aware they all have stem leaves that look just > like yours. I have friends who travelled recently in Arunachal Pradesh and > they found lots of white flowered Meconopsis horridula that are just like > yours and there are pictures on my website of these that I suspect you saw. > It would be nice to use one of your pictures on my website to show the > plants in the Twang district. I might add that friends who found a > Meconopsis horridula type in Bhutan (This form they called M. racemosa) > that was scapose at 5,000m. but became a proper raceme as they same down > below about 5,000 m. Hope this helps a bit and thank you so much for > getting in touch. *Best wishes, James Cobb" > * Hope this contributes to the discussion here > Tabish > > On Tuesday, July 9, 2013 10:33:40 AM UTC+5:30, Tabish wrote: >> >> A Meconopsis species found in Tawang region, Arunachal Pradesh, around >> 4000 m elevation. >> The leaves appear to be simple and unlobed. Found flowering in June end. >> Please identify >> Tabish >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/indiantreepix/0bx231MQDSY/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- 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]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
