Garg ji
This has been true for me also, although in a different way. During last 30
years or so I must have visited so many hill stations in connection with
botanical trips. It was sufficient for me to identify for students the commonly
growing plants. The madness started only after my son presented me a digital
SLR camera last year (Earlier I had SLR film camera, with which you can't be
that liberal). Last year I took more than 5000 photographs in California (they
went into my International edition book), more than 2000 this year, and more
than 1000 in Manali trip. Now I want to identify, every plant I click. We are
all similar in that sense.
And the way I identified Cuphea hyssopifolia and had no clue about another
species of same genus, puts us all in the same bracket.
Identification is a learning process for all of us, especially when we may
be confronted with any of more than quarter million species of flowering plants.
You can imagine my madness when I could find only a single small plant,
which looked very interesting to me. I managed to take different photographs of
this plant and finally managed to identify it as Viola betonicifolia.
Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College
University of Delhi, Delhi
India
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45
----- Original Message -----
From: J.M. Garg
To: Gurcharan Singh
Cc: Dinesh Valke ; [email protected]
Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 6:24 PM
Subject: Re: [indiantreepix:22048] Re: Plant 021109GS1 for ID from Mandi in HP
I agree with Dinesh ji.
For a lot us like me, it's learning by mistakes or photography.
Photography has proved to be a great learning experience.
One photographs a plant, tries to identify it with the help of books etc.,
processes photos of different aspects of it, posts it, gets its confirmation/
correction on the group along with lots of discussion.
One sees it again in the field & may be repeats the process.
It involves so much of energy & time along with passionate involvement.
It's difficult for one to forget it easily.
2009/11/2 Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>
Dinesh ji
And now the interesting coincidence. A few feet away from this plant was
growing Cuphea hyssopifolia, which I could identify easily. Not in my wildest
dreams could I thinkt that it could belong to the same genus.
Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College
University of Delhi, Delhi
India
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45
----- Original Message -----
From: Dinesh Valke
To: Gurcharan Singh
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: [indiantreepix:22041] Plant 021109GS1 for ID from Mandi in HP
Dear friends (and Gurcharan ji), the reason with which I arrived to the
ID is not botanical, it is rather based on learning by mistakes !! For want of
time, I put only the botanical name in my message earlier.
Let me append to it ... I had seen this plant in Mahabaleshwar ...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/2195761806/ ... and had mistaken it
for Woodfordia fruticosa !!!! ... ... one of my flickr contact (Tony Rodd) as
well as Tabish corrected the ID.
Regards.
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
Dinesh Valke
Thanks a lot. That is the beauty of this group. With so many diverse
experts, it so much lessens your work of sitting with books, hand lens and
dissecting microscopes.
Thanks once again
Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College
University of Delhi, Delhi
India
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45
----- Original Message -----
From: Dinesh Valke
To: Gurcharan Singh
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: [indiantreepix:22041] Plant 021109GS1 for ID from Mandi
in HP
Gurcharan ji, please check Cuphea micropetala.
Regards.
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>
wrote:
Sending 021109GS1 for ID from Mandi in HP
Incidently the first plant I encountered on trip to Kullu-Manali
was a small shrub, I could not place. It was apparantly cultivated outside a
hotel.
Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College
University of Delhi, Delhi
India
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45
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