Really beautiful pictures Aparna ji and Gurcharan Singh ji. Your photographs highlight some of the very hidden and beautiful aspects of this common plant. Sorry to use these words but i must say that i am compelled to use the word 'really hot n sexy' for plant world....
Alok On Dec 30, 7:20 am, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > I have this one in the series of photographs of vegetative parts: Again > Jatropha gossypifolia > > -- > 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: 9810359089http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Satish Phadke <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > Great pictures by Alok and Aparna > > You have highlighted a very interesting and different aspect about plant > > life. > > I Certainly got inspired to look at these aspects while observing the plant > > life henceforth > > Thanks for sharing > > Dr Satish Phadke > > > 2009/12/30 Alok Goyal <[email protected]> > > > Hallo all > > >> This is my submission for the flora picture of the year-2009. inspired to > >> some extent by David Attenborough's "private life of plants" i keep looking > >> for some less noticed structures on the plants which enhance their > >> attraction, used in defense or for any other purpose other than the > >> routine. > >> The leaf is that of Erythrina suberosa. its a young leaf which is almost > >> all covered with a lot of hair. the base of leaf is possesses these > >> extrafloral nectaries which stand out of the hair covering the young parts. > >> the nectaries probably act in plant defense by attracting ants which feed > >> on > >> the nectar produced by these nectaries. these ants inturn protect the > >> plant, > >> flowers and flower buds from insect pests. > > >> Alok > > >> -- > >> 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%2bunsubscr...@goog > >> legroups.com> > >> . > >> For more options, visit this group at > >>http://groups.google.com/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%2bunsubscr...@goog > > legroups.com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en. > > -- > 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: 9810359089http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > Jatropha-gossypifolia-Delhi.jpg > 141KViewDownload -- 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]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix?hl=en.
