Yes Garg ji I was looking for Ban tulsi which does not figure under Hyptis. A simple search for tulsi gives more than twenty hits to look for. I normally use 'Useful plants of India' by CSIR to check local names which did not list Hyptis as Ban tulsi. Anyway once our database is complete, it should be the most useful resource around for Indian plants
Thanks again -- 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/ On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 7:35 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Singh ji, > If you have tried *Edit ยป Find* to search 'tulsi' in the > indiantreepix database, you would have found your plant immediately. > It certainly is more useful to experts like you. > > 2009/11/22 Pankaj Oudhia <[email protected]> > > Thanks Gurucharan ji for your reply. >> >> I am forwarding Hindi article titled "Bahut kuchh batate hai vanaspatiyon >> ke sthaniya naam." >> >> http://ecoport.org/storedReference/556792.pdf >> >> In my state, villages have been named after herbs. Chhattisgarh have over >> 16,000 villages. I have noted that villages named based on specific herb are >> rich in that particular species and the natives as well as Traditional >> Healers have more information about the species than other region. Please >> see this link for more information. >> >> http://ecoport.org/ep?SearchType=reference&ReferenceID=557175 >> >> >> regards >> >> Pankaj Oudhia >> >> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Pankaj ji >>> Thanks for sharing your sentiments. Don't get me wrong. When I said the >>> Plant is no where near Ocimum, it meant botanically. All species of Ocimum >>> and easily distinguished by the presence of large almost spoon shaped upper >>> calyx lobe, and when identifying members of Labiatae, the calyx structure is >>> used as main criterian. In that regard in Floras Ocimum is generally at the >>> other end of identification keys. >>> I never doubted Ban Tulsi, it was and it isBan tulsi, only it is not >>> Ocimum basilicum (it is Sweet basil, common basil niazbo, babui tulsi, gulal >>> tulsi, bhuttulsi, kama kasturi, and so many other common names, but not ban >>> tulsi). Ban tulsi I knew through literature may be a Elsholtzia blanda >>> (assam), Majorana hortensis (Kumaon), Ocimum gratissimum (Hindi, Bengali) >>> and Perilla frutescens (Bengal). It was none of these. The book Useful >>> plants of India by CSRI lists following local names for Hyptis suaveolens: >>> Hindi: Vilayati tulsi. Beng: Bilati tulsi. Oryia: Ganga tulsi, parodo. >>> Bihar: Bihunsri, dimbubuha, ara gusumpuru. It does not list Ban tulsi, and >>> as such did not help me. Thanks Dinesh ji, he identified the plant >>> correctly. >>> >>> I invite you to visit Herbal Garden here to see many more >>> scientific names to know reason for my comments. >>> >>> As far as local names are concerned they are always useful in quick >>> identification, and you must have seen recently I have been posting local >>> regional names in all languages, when an identiofication is complete. >>> >>> Cheer up Pankaj ji >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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/ >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 12:24 AM, Dinesh Valke >>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Friends: it was fastest fingers first !! >>>> Thank you very much, Gurcharan ji ... my salutes to you. >>>> >>>> Regards. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Gurcharan Singh >>>> <[email protected]>wrote: >>>> >>>>> 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. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> 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/ >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "indiantreepix" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> [email protected]<indiantreepix%[email protected]> >>>>> . >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "indiantreepix" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<indiantreepix%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=. >> > > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg ([email protected]) > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > Image Resource of more than a thousand species of Birds, Butterflies, > Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg > For learning about Indian Flora, visit/ join Google e-group- Indiantreepix: > http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "indiantreepix" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<indiantreepix%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=. > x -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "indiantreepix" group. 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