Me and several botanists had a set procedure of work. If you find any
unknown plant, sit with few floras, efloras if you have internet available,
get hold of dissecting microscope, needle, brush, blade and a few more
things and get busy till you identify the plant. If unsuccessful, photograph
it and send to any group or individual who you think can identify this.
Two days back I found a plant growing in Herbal garden, labelled as ban
tulsi and identified as Ocimum basilicum. This angered me a lot, since it
was no where near Ocimum. I sat down with all books I had, tried to study
it, but after spending 6-8 hours could not identify this plant. Finally,
today I sent it to the group, and after 10 minutes I knew this was Hyptis
svaveolens, thanks Dinesh Valke.
This made me to rethink and decide. Next time you get a new plant,
simply photograph it and send to the group, if you don't get help, only then
waste your time with microscopes and books.
This is how Indiantreepix and internet has changed the attitudes.
Thanks Garg ji, Tabish ji and Dinesh ji.
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Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/
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