Thanks, Singh ji. But in effect it points only to *seven species*, from which you can easily identify your plant within minutes. Indiantreepix Database is an unending exercise & will never be complete- I think it will stop only when we stop updating it. 2009/11/22 Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>
> 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 > -- 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. 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